INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERIOD. 221 
STELA A. 
Provenance: In the Great Plaza just north of Mound 4, Main 
Structure. (See plate 6.) 
Date: 9.15.0.0.0 4 Ahau 13 Yax.! 
Text, (a) photograph: Maudslay 1889-1902, vol. 1, plates 25, 27-29. 
(b) drawing: Spinden, 1913, plate 20, 7 (part only). 
Maudslay, ibid, plates 26, 30. 
Morley, 1915, plate 7, bd. 
Stephens, 1841, vol. 1, 3 plates after p. 158. 
References: Bowditch, 1910, pp. IoI, 126, 127, 182, 183, and tables 
29 and 31. 
Galindo, 1834, Appendix XI, p. 598. 
Goodman, 1897, p. 129. 
Gordon, 1896, p. 35. 
Gordon, 1902, p. 171. 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. I of text, pp. 36-39. 
Morley, 1915, pp. 169, 170. 
Seler, 1902-1908, vol. 1, pp. 754, 755. 
Spinden, 1913, pp. 158, 159, 162, and table 1. 
Stephens, 1841, vol. 1, p. 158. 
Thomas, 1900, pp. 776, 801. 
Stela A stands in situ in the Great Plaza at the northern base of Mound 
4, facing east (see plate 6), that is, with a side instead of its back’ next the 
mound, in which position it would appear not to have been correlated with 
Mound 4.2. The front is sculptured with a human figure of heroic propor- 
tions and gorgeous clothing. The back and sides are covered with glyphs, 
on the basis of which arrangement of the design it may be assigned to 
Class 4. It is 3.5 meters high, 91 cm. wide, and something less in thickness. 
Stephens gives it the letter L in his map.’ 
The Initial Series is presented on the north side, and records the date 
g.14.19.8.0 12 Ahau 18 Cumhu very clearly, as follows: 
Al Initial Series introducing glyph 
A2a 9 cycles 
A2b =: 14 katuns 
A3a_—s«iTg tuns 
A3b 8 uinals 
A4a o kins 
A4b =: 12 Ahau 
Agb ~=18 Cumhu 
_ Except for the Supplementary Series, there are no other known glyphs 
on the north side. 
The second glyph on the back or west side, B2a, records the Secondary 
Series 3.0; and following this in c2 is the date 4 Ahau 18 Muan. All efforts 
to reach the latter by counting 3.0 forward from the Initial Series terminal 
date are unavailing; but if this number is counted backward from the 
Initial Series terminal date, the date reached will be found to be 4 Ahau 18 
Muan, as recorded. 


1 For other monuments recording this same hotun-ending, see Appendix VIII. 
2 Four of the stele in the center of the Great Plaza are arranged in two lines facing each other, Stele A and 
B being directly opposite Stele H and F respectively, the two former facing east, the two latter, west. (See plate 6.) 
3 Stephens, 1841, vol. 1, map facing p. 133, and p. 158. 
