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glyph-blocks, or 12 for the entire text. (See fig. 59.) Clear as these are 
on the east, south, and west faces, every sign of which is perfectly legible, 
no one appears to contain data by means of which the position of this altar 
can be fixed in the Long Count; and it is necessary to conclude that the date 
must have been recorded in the first two glyph-blocks on the north side, a, B, 
now unfortunately effaced. (See fig. 59, a.) Many individual glyphs, 




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Fic. 59.—Inscription on four sides of Altar 1 at Rio Amarillo. 
however, are recognizable. Thus, for example, on the west side (fig. 59, 2) 
pa u. h. contains the day-sign Ahau; pd u. h. is 3 katuns and pé |. h. looks 
like 7 Ix (?); ea 1. h. looks like a head-variant for the day-sign Kan, and Fa 
1. h. is the head of God C. 
On the south side the first glyph, ca u. h. is 4 Cib and Ha 1. h. is the 
winged-Cauac variant of the tun-sign, and on the east side at ja 1. h. the 
day-sign Ahau appears, and again at ka u.h. (here inverted), and again the 
day 1 Ahau in tb u.h. There were 2 or 3 tuns recorded in 1a u.h., but 
unfortunately the coefficient here is partially effaced. In spite of the fact 
