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There are 4 glyph-blocks on each end and 10 on the back, making 4+4-++10= 
18 for the entire inscription. 
The text opens (see figure 46, b) with the Secondary Series number 9.4 
in Al, followed by a glyph frequently seen in Secondary Series at Bia, and 
by a Calendar Round date 6 Ahau 13 Kayab at Bib, a2. The next glyph, 
B2a, is of unknown meaning, but the last glyph on this side, B2b, is the day 
aA 
ai 
GoNee 


d 
Fic. 46.— Design and inscription on Altar W’: a, front, b, c, sides, d, back. 
8 Kan. Counting forward 9.4 from 6 Ahau 13 Kayab, the first date in the 
text, the terminal date reached will be found to be 8 Kan 12 Mol, the 8 Kan 
of which, we have just seen, was recorded at B2b. Passing around to the back 
of the altar, we should expect to find 12 Mol in the first glyph on the back, 
ci, but such is not the case. Although the coefficient there recorded is 12, 
the month-sign is not Mol, but either Chen, Yax, Zac, or Ceh, with the best 
reading at Zac, which is 3 uinals later than Mol. 
