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blocks, B3 and B4, we reach a break in the inscription, Bs, the upper half 
of B6 being gone. Fortunately, the lower half of the latter is sufficiently 
preserved to show that it had recorded the day 1o Ahau, both the coefficient 
and day-sign showing very plainly; and following this, in B7a u. h. is the 
month 3 Pax, both the coefficient and month-sign being again very clear. 
The date ro Ahau 3 Pax occurred in Cycle 9 nearest the Initial Series 
date on this monument at the following places: 
Q-11: 1. 4.0 “10 Ahauis’Pax 
Git4o03s1 7-088 LO rials bax 
9.16. 6.12.0 10 Ahau 3 Pax 
And since the second is the only one falling in the same katun as the Initial 
Series terminal date of the stela, it may probably be accepted as the value 
intended here. 
Returning once more to our table of possible values for the Initial Series 
itself, it will be found that the fourth, 9.13.14.0.15, is only 1.15 (35 days) 
later than this date. But we have already seen that 15 kins are recorded in 
B1b, and possibly 1 uinal in B2a, and we are therefore justified in assuming 
that the Initial Series recorded on this monument probably is 9.13.14.0.15 
6 Men 18 Kayab, and that the Secondary Series number in Bid, B2a was 
counted backward from it. In corroboration of this reading, it should be 
remembered that the preliminary inspection of the tun coefficient gave 14 
as its best value. A summary of the count follows: 
9.13.14. 0.15 6 Men 18 Kayab 
1.15 backward 
Hiftiis.07..00) 10 Ahau4) Pax 
Neither of these dates, however, is a hotun-ending, and for this reason 
we must probably look farther for the contemporaneous date of the stela. 
Unfortunately, the last three glyph-blocks where this matter was probably 
recorded, Bs—B10, are in very bad condition, although traces of several num- 
bers appear, particularly in Bs u. h., Bs |. h., Boa u. h., and B9b u. h. 
The first of these, Bs u. h., has a coefficient of 1, 2, or 3 and hardly can 
have a bearing here, as the head to which it is attached is neither a day or 
month-sign or a period-glyph. The next, however, Bsa |. h., has a coefficient 
of 9 or 14. Could this be Katun 14? Following this in Bo u. h. there are 
faint traces of what may have been a Calendar Round date. The coefficients 
may possibly be 6 and 13 respectively, although these readings are very 
doubtful indeed.’ 
The two hotuns most likely to have been commemorated by Stela 5, 
because they are nearest its two known dates, are 9.13.15.0.0 13 Ahau 18 
Pax and 9.14.0.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Muan; and we have just seen that the terminal 
date of the latter may possibly be recorded in Bo u. h. and perhaps the period 
itself in Bsal.h. At least Bo u. h. more closely resembles 6 Ahau 13 Muan 
than it does 13 Ahau 18 Pax. Unfortunately, the last two glyph-blocks on 
this side of Stela 5 are so badly weathered that it is impossible to say what 
had been recorded here, and it is therefore unwise to press decipherment 

1 These doubtful coefficients are not clearly shown in the drawing of this glyph-block in plate 19, d. 
