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it is the nearest to the Initial Series of the stela as already stated, the writer 
believes the date recorded in C1 is 9.11.19.5.0 10 Ahau 13 Ceh and the date 
in C7, 9.11.19.15.8 10 Lamat (16 Zotz). 
The south side of Stela I shows some familiar glyphs, but none of calen- 
dric significance so far as known, except perhaps the lower part of p2a 
which may possibly be the Cauac variant of the tun-sign. This text has 
15 +9+9=33 glyph-blocks, the Initial Series introducing glyph occupying 
the space of 4 glyph-blocks. 
The altar of this monument, as already explained, continues the inscrip- 
tion on the stela. Two bands at right angles to each other cross over the 
center of the top and extend down over the sides, dividing the periphery 
into four quadrants of 3 glyph-blocks each, or 12 in all. As each glyph- 
block has 2 glyphs, there are 24 glyphs on the altar and 45 glyph-blocks in the 
entire text, » (oee-plate 22, “c.) 
The text commences with the first glyph-block of the present northwest 
quadrant,! (a, plate 22, c), only a small part of which is preserved. Enough 
remains, however, to show that it presents the introducing glyphs of a 
Secondary Series, which follows immediately in B and ca. In spite of some 
effacement in the former, the coefficients are still clear, and this number is 
surely 1.4.0. The last glyph in this quadrant, cb, is the day 3 Ahau, and 
following this in the first glyph of the next quadrant, ba, is 3 Xul, and in the 
next, pb, “the end of a hotun.”’ The meaning of these last three glyphs is 
perfectly clear, namely, that on the date 3 Ahau 3 Xul a hotun of the Long 
Count came to an end. 
Referring to Goodman’s tables, it will be found that only one hotun in 
Cycle 9 came to an end on this date, namely, 9.12.5.0.0 3 Ahau 3 Xul, and 
this hotun, moreover, is only 1.4.0 later than the Initial Series of Stela I. 
But we have just seen that this latter number was recorded in B—ca, and the 
meaning here, therefore, is unmistakable. The Secondary Series on the 
associated altar brings the Initial Series terminal date of the stela—the 
latter not a hotun-ending—forward to the next hotun-ending, 7. ¢., 9.12.5.0.0, 
which fact is actually declared in pb. The relation of these dates follows: 
Stela I at-B5, a8 —s- 9.12.3.14.0 5 Ahau 8 Uo 
Altar Ba-ca I. 4.0 
ch, Da 9.12.5. 0.0 3 Ahau 3 Xul 
bb End of a hotun 
The next glyph-block, £, presents a Calendar Round date 8 Ahau 8 Uo, 
all being perfectly regular except the month-coefficient. This is presented 
in an oval, the right half of which has disappeared, but since one 
bar and the left dot still show very clearly, this coefh- 7-=5 cient can only 
have been 6, 7, 8, or 9. But since the day-sign is Ce surely Ahau, 
and since Ahau can only have 3, 8, 13, or 18 as its corresponding month-coeffi- 
cients, the. month-coefficient here recorded must have been 8. 



This altar has probably been shifted somewhat from its original position. When examined, the the first glyph 
in plate 22, c, designated hereafter aa was the first in the northwest quadrant. This same glyph appears at the 
extreme left in Maudslay’s photograph of this altar (1889-1902, vol. 1, plate 62, b). 
