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in the single sign for Chicchan which he gives.!| They are also present in 
the day-sign in figure 41, which we have seen (p. 263) may also be Chicchan. 
This seems to indicate that the day-sign in ai is Chicchan, and Al, A2 there- 
fore reads 2 Chicchan 3 Zip, which eliminates the third and fourth readings 
above on other grounds. This date (9.16.11.0.5), was not only exactly 1 haab 
or year of 365 days later than the Initial Series of Stela N, but also only 1.10 
(30 days) later than the date on the south band of the pedestal, which may 
account for its record here. 
In support of this reading is the additional fact that a close examination 
of the day coefficient shows that it can only be 2. The middle element is 
clearly Jonger than the dot below it. Moreover, if the space which this 
glyph-block originally occupied is carefully measured, it will be found that 
there is just room above the longer middle non-numerical element for a dot 
of the same size as the bottom one. (See figure 43, where the upper part of 
this glyph-block has been restored in dotted lines.) This makes the coeffi- 
cient 2 instead of 3,as drawn by Maudslay,? and on another ground eliminates 
the first, third and fifth values above. The writer regards it as practically 
certain that this date is 2 Chicchan 3 Zip, and as extremely probable that its 
corresponding Initial Series was 9.16.11.0.5, just 1 haab later than the Initial 
Series of Stela N. It is not far from Stela N (see plate 6), and doubtless is to 
be referred to the same period. 
AtTaARs B’ anp C’, 
Provenance: At the western end of the Court of the Hieroglyphic 
Stairway in front of Mound 7 of the Acropolis, Main 
Structure. (See plate 6.) 
Date: g.16.10.0.0 1 Ahau 3 Zip (?) tog.17.0.0.0 13 Ahau 18. 
Cumhu (?). 
Text, (a) photograph: Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1, plate 113, b. 
(b) drawing: plate 22, a and b. 
figure 44. 
Altars B’ and C’ seem to have been found at the western end of the Court 
of the Hieroglyphic Stairway in front of Mound 7. A photograph taken by 
the First Peabody Museum Expedition in 1891, No. 96, shows both ends of 
B’ and one end of C’ in this position and its title says “Sculptures found 
lying at eastern base of Mound 7.”’ 
Maudslay’s photograph, probably taken in 1894,’ shows both ends of B’ 
in the same place, but not the end of C’. In 1915 the writer also found both 
ends of B’ here, but the end of C’ seems to have disappeared. It is probable, 
therefore, that both of these altars originally stood in front of Mound 7 at 
the western end of the court. (See plate 6.) ‘These altars are not mono- 
lithic, but are each composed of three blocks, two ends and a middle section. 
When assembled, each was about 1.6 meters long, 46 cm. wide, and 38 cm. 

1 Bowditch, 1910, plate 5. 2 Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1, pl. 73, 3. 
3 The year after Owens’s death, the Peabody Museum had no expedition in the field, 1893-1894. Maudslay, 
however, visited the site as its representative and secured molds and photographs of part of the new material 
discovered by the First and Second Expeditions, 1891-1893. Part of this material was published as plates 100- 
119 of volume 1 of the section on archeology of the Biologia Centrali-Americana. The photograph reproduced in 
plate 113, 5, showing the two ends of Altar B’, was therefore probably taken in 1894. 
