INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERIOD. 313 
their regular positions, on the left of the signs they modify. The only explana- 
tion for this unique feature here would appear to have been the desire to have 
both sets of coefficients appear on the sides of the glyphs adjacent to the front 
of the monument, and the only way to have achieved this was to have the 
coefficients of the glyphs on the left side stand at the right instead of the 
left of the glyphs they modify. The same desire, 7. ¢., to have the coef- 
ficients appear on the sides of the glyphs next the outside of the doorway, 
probably caused the inversion of the regular order, also noted in the panel 
under discussion, since the glyphs and their coefficients, with the single 
exception of Glyph A noted above, which itself is always an exception to the 
regular practice, all face toward the front or exterior of the temple as one 
enters the north doorway. ‘This practically unique condition has also 
apparently influenced the order of reading this text, which, as we shall 
presently see, is probably to be read from right to left and top to bottom in 
pairs of columns instead of from left to right and top to bottom in pairs of 
columns as elsewhere. ‘That is to say, the usual order of reading, as well as 
the signs themselves, has been reversed in this panel. This text therefore 
begins in the upper right-hand corner with £1 and is read in pairs of columns 
from right to left and top to bottom as follows: £1, F1, £2, F2, £3, F3, E4, F4, ES 
F5, E6, F6, E7, F7, E8, F8, Gl, H1, G2, H2, etc., on through Gs, Hs, in the lower ee 
hand corner, H8 (3 katuns) being the last glyph. By such an arrangement 
both panels could be read from the outside going in. 
The internal points of evidence tending to corroborate this order of read- 
ing are the following: The first surely decipherable glyph is rr Ahau in ua, 
and following this in Gs is a glyph which contains the essential elements of 
the first two glyphs of the Supplementary Series, G and F, brought together 
in one glyph-block, the superfix being the essential characteristic of Glyph F 
(note the careful inversion of these elements also) and the kin-sign the 
essential element of Glyph G. ‘The next glyphs, Hs, G6, and u6 are also 
probably glyphs of the Supplementary Series, since the next, G7, is Glyph A, 
the closing sign of the series. After this, that is, on its /eft, there follows in 
H7 the month 18 Zac, and finally the next glyph, cs, declares the “end of a 
hotun.” The last glyph in the panel, us, is 3 katuns, though its con- 
nection with the above date is not apparent. 
We have recorded here the two parts of a Calendar Round date, 11 Ahau 
18 Zac in H4 and H7 respectively, separated by a Supplementary Series in 
Gs-G7, and followed by a hotun-ending sign in Gs, sufficient data to fix 
this date within a period of more than 4,500 years. Referring to Goodman’s 
tables, it will be found that the only hotun in Cycle 9, or in fact for 4,500 
years, either before or after Cycle 9, which could end on the date 11 Ahau 
18 Zac was 9.14.15.0.0 11 Ahau 18 Zac, less than 40 years before the date we 
have assumed for the contemporaneous date of Temple 11. Indeed, we 
need have little hesitation in accepting the above date as the hotun-ending 
recorded here. 
