INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERIOD. 311 
hand corner of the panel on the west jamb of the north doorway. It will 
appear later, however, that when complete these panels were probably 
about 1.5 meters high. There were four columns of glyph-blocks in each 
panel, and probably 8 glyph-blocks to a column, making 32 for each panel, 
64 for each doorway, or 128 for both doorways, probably including at least 
two Initial Series, one on each jamb of the north doorway. 
The inscription commences with the panel on the east jamb of the 
north doorway. (See plate 29,c.) As the spectator faces the temple, this 
panel is on his left, and following the usual Maya practice of reading from 
left to right and top to bottom in pairs of columns, it is probable that this is 
the order of reading here. 
The first glyph sufficiently preserved to decipher is a6, which looks like 
the kins of an Initial Series. The next is Bo,! which is6 Caban. The day- 
sign shows clearly, and also the bar of the coefficient. ‘The upper left-hand 
corner is missing, but the upper right-hand corner is preserved; the stone 
is smooth, showing there never had been a dot here. The only place a dot 
could have been was above the center of the bar, and as there is only room 
for one at this point, the coefficient could only have been 6. 
The next glyph, a7, is almost entirely gone; it looks a little like Glyph 
F of the Supplementary Series, the next, B7, is unmistakably 10 Mol, and 
B6, B7, therefore, record 6 Caban 10 Mol, the important date already found 
on the step leading into the sanctuary, and also on Altars V, R, and U. Its 
Initial Series, as already suggested, is probably 9.16.12.5.17. 
The left half of as is missing, and Bs is very clearly Glyph C of the 
Supplementary Series, here shown with a coefficient of 6, the highest value 
ever found with it. The remaining glyphs in the panel are undecipherable, 
except D7, which is 6 tuns. Note the late form of the tun-sign. The bottom 
of the glyph-panel is just 15 cm. above the plaster floor of the doorway. 
There are some indications that this date, 6 Caban to Mol, in Be, B7 is 
the terminal date of an Initial Series. In the first place, as looks very much 
as though it may have been the kins of an Initial Series number, and a7 
as though it had been Glyph F of the Supplementary Series. Finally, 3s 
is surely Glyph C of the Supplementary Series. So far as known, Supple- 
mentary Series never occur without accompanying Initial Series, and there- 
fore it seems likely that this inscription originally began with an Initial 
Series which declared the position of the important date 6 Caban ro Mol in 
the Long Count. If so, the Initial Series introducing glyph was in a1—s3, 
the cycles in a4, the katuns in B4, the tuns in as, the uinals in Bs, and the 
kins in Ao. 
Turning to the opposite panel, on the west jamb (plate 29, d), we find 
an interesting condition, namely, most if not all of its glyphs are reversed. 
This applies not only to the elements within the signs themselves, but also 
to their coefficients. Take for example u7, the fourth glyph in the first 

1 The glyphs in these four panels are designated on the basis of 4 columns of 8 glyph-blocks each; 86 therefore is 
the third to last glyph in the second column. 
