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number is counted forward from the Initial Series terminal date, the lahun- 
tun-ending recorded will be reached, which further authenticates the Initial 
Series as deciphered above, viz: 
g.12. 8. 3.9 8 Muluc 17 Mol 
1.14.11 
9.12.10. 0. 0 9g Ahau 18 Zotz 
The last three glyphs of the text, Nb u. h. to Nb 1. h., are undecipher- 
able. A complete summary of the foregoing calculations follows: 
A-pa |. h., Gb u. h. g.12. 8. 3. 9 8 Muluc 17 Mol 
qpieh., Kew h., Kal, h, 2.13. 4. 4 backward 
Lu. h. O. Gidages 6 Chicchan 18 Kayab 
Lb |. h., Ma u. h. 1.14.11 forward from Initial Series 
Mb |. h., Na u. h. 9.12.10. 0. 0 9g Ahau 18 Zotz 
Mal.h. End of a lahuntun 
It may be noted in passing that the second date above, 9.9.14.17.5 
6 Chicchan 18 Kayab, is exactly 78 years of 365 days each earlier than the 
best reading of the Initial Series of Stela 5, namely, 9.13.14.0.15 6 Men 18 
Kayab. (See p. 207.) 
There are 4 glyph-blocks on each end and 6 on the front, making 14 
for the entire inscription. ‘These contain about 48 individual characters, 
and as 17 have been completely deciphered and the significance of 8 more 
at least partially understood, and finally, since this is an average text, we 
may claim with some reasonableness that the meanings of from one-third 
to one-half of the Maya glyphs have been determined. 
As will appear in connection with Altar I’, the sister monument of 
Altar H’, the inscriptions on the two are continuous and can not be treated 
separately; therefore the question as to what was the contemporaneous date 
of Altar H’ will be taken up under Altar I’. 
ALTAR I’, 
Provenance: Original position uncertain. Now at the southern 
end of the Western Court, at the northwestern corner 
of Mound 14 of the Acropolis, Main Structure. (See 
plate 6.) 
Date: 9.13.0.0.0 8 Ahau 8 Uo.! 
Text, drawing: plate 23, d, ¢, f. 
References: Galindo, 1834, Appendix XI], p. 597. 
Gordon, 1896, p. I5. 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1 of text, p. 24. 
Altar I’, the sister monument of Altar H’, is 2.48 meters long, 1.45 
meters wide, and 38 cm. thick. It now lies at the northwestern corner of 
Mound 14 at the Main Structure, broken into 5 pieces, one of which, the 
northeastern corner, is missing, and was also when Galindo first described 
this altar in 1834. 
1 For other monuments recording this same hotun-ending, see Appendix VITI. 

