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Top; Atj Br’) 9.15<.6.16.17 5 Caban 15 Yaxkin 
(3) not recorded 
Top, 84,44, 0.157 0,17. 0 8 Ahau 18 Yaxkin 
Top, a6 7.13" 
Tope Crap none. '7o5 0.14 5 Ben 11 Muan 
(1. 4.17. 4) not recorded 
Front 9.16.12. 5:17 6 Caban 10 Mol 
(7.12. 3) not recorded 
Top, cé6 9.17. 0.0.0 (13 Ahau 18 Cumhu) 
(5. 0. 0) not recorded 
Top, D6,E1 9.17. 5.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Kayab 
Top, Es hae | 
Top E6 oN ea ig 5 Kan 12? Uo 
The first three dates are all less than a year later than 9.15.6.14.6 
6 Cimi 4 Tzec (Date 11 on the Hieroglyphic Stairway); indeed, the first 
date above is only 51 days later. ‘This date, we have also seen, occurs four 
times at the neighboring city of Quirigua, and doubtless corresponds with an 
important event in the history of both sites. After these first three dates 
there is a gap of over a katun, as on Altar U (see p. 305), at the end of which 
occurs the important date 9.16.12.5.17 6 Caban 10 Mol, especially empha- 
sized here by being the only date on the front of the altar. The preceding 
katun-ending, namely, 9.17.0.0.0, is next recorded, and then the current 
hotun-ending 9.17.5.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Kayab, the contemporaneous date of 
the altar. And finally, there is a date 9.17.5.3.4 5 Kan 12 Uo, 64 days later. 
It should be noted that of the six dates actually recorded on Altar Q, three 
have a day coefficient of 5. 
With the completion and dedication of Altar Q and probably Temple 16, 
architectural as well as sculptural activity probably ceased in the Western and 
Eastern Courts; at least no later dates have been found on the Acropolis.’ 
One more point in connection with the Western Court remains to be 
considered. Stela P, recording the very early date 9.9.10.0.0 2 Ahau 13 Pop, 
it will be remembered (see p. 115), stands in the Western Court, not far 
from Altar Q. We have seen that the structures surrounding the Eastern 
and Western Courts were probably not commenced prior to 9.16.10.0.0 or 
at least 9.16.0.0.0, and while it is doubtless true that there were older 
buildings in this part of the city—indeed, the cross-section of the Acropolis 
made by the river shows older plaza levels and walls—the final floor-levels 
of the Western and Eastern Courts were probably not established prior to 
g.16.0.0.0, or possibly even later. Obviously, then, Stela P, with a date 
nearly 150 years earlier, is not in its original position, but must have been 
moved to the Western Court after the completion of the latter in 9.17.0.0.0. 
The same also applies to Altars H’ and I’ at the southern end of the court, 
which are 80 years earlier than the reviewing-stand at the opposite end. 
Such re-erections of early monuments in later times at other than their 
original positions was doubtless not unusual; but the case can rarely be 

1 Incorrectly recorded as 12 in the original. 2 Incorrectly recorded as 13 in the original. 
3 The exact provenance of Altar W, shown in plate 6 as having been found in the Western Court, is unknown. 
(See pp. 364, 365.) 
