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5. This stela appears to have some relation with the West Altar of Stela 5, 
declaring a date just 5 katuns or a quarter of a cycle later than the 
Initial Series of that monument. 
6. This stela and altar between the Initial Series date on the former and the 
end of the current katun on the latter cover a period of 5,840 days, 
or exactly two of the very important Venus-solar periods of 2,920 
days each, 7. ¢., 10 Venus years or 16 solar years. 
STELA 6. 
Provenance: Several hundred meters northwest of Stela 5 at Group 8. 
(See plate 3.) 
Date: 9.12.10.0.0 9g Ahau 18 Zotz.! 
Text, (a) photograph: Gordon, 1896, plate 7. 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1, plates 105 and 106. 
; Spinden, 1913, plates 18, 4 and 20, 6. 
(b) drawing: §Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1, plate 107. 
figure 33 (altar only). 
References: Bowditch, 1910, p. 1o1 and table 29. 
Gordon, 1896, pp. 35, 37; 38. 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1 of text, p. 67. 
Spinden, 1913, p. 159 and table 1. 
Stela 6 was found lying on the ground in the bush to the north of the 
road leading from the village to the Main Structure, several hundred meters 
northwest of Stela 5, at Group 8. One of the Peabody Museum expeditions 
raised this monument to its former position; but it has since fallen again, 
and now lies prostrate and broken into two pieces. 
It is 2.9 meters long, 58 cm. wide, and 56 cm. thick. The front is sculp- 
tured with a human figure and the back and sides with glyphs, on the basis 
of which arrangement it is to be assigned to Class 4. The Initial Series 
introducing glyph appears in Ai—B2, and the Initial Series number in a3—B4 
and Bob. ‘The date recorded is 9.12.10.0.0 9 Ahau 18 Zotz, as follows: 
Ar-B2 _ Initial Series introducing glyph 
A3 9 cycles 
B3 12 katuns 
A4u.h. 10 tuns 
Aq I-h. © uinals 
B4a o kins 
B4D g Ahau 
B6D 18 Zotz 
All the above coefficients are bar-and-dot numerals, with the exception 
of the kin coefficient, which is a head-variant, and all the values are per- 
fectly clear as given. 
As Stela 6 records a lahuntun-ending in the Long Count, the lahuntun 
glyph should be found somewhere in the text. Let us therefore continue 
our examination. The next glyph after the month of the Initial Series 
terminal date, a7a, is a well-known ending-sign of which the hand is the 
most conspicuous element, and following this in A7d is the glyph sought for, 
namely, the lahuntun-sign. ‘The regularity with which this glyph occurs in 

1 For other monuments recording this same hotun-ending, see Appendix VIII. 
