THE HOTUN. ort 
Quirigua.—The series of hotun-markers at this site is the most satisfactory in 
the Old Empire, for there is not a single gap after the erection of the first stela in 
g.15.15.0.0 (Stela S) down to and including the last hotun-ending recorded here, 
g.19.0.0.0 (Structure 1). This is shown graphically in figure 84, where a map of the 
city appears with a chronological diagram below giving the dates of the different 
monuments after the same scheme as in figure 83. It will be noticed in figure 84 
that there are no undated stelz at Quirigua, and only 4 undated altars, N, L, Q, 
and R, the latter being small and relatively unimportant. The earliest hotun- 
ending 1 is 9.15.0.0.0 (Altar M) and the next 9.15.15.0.0 (Stela S), after which the 
series continues without a single break for 65 years down to and including 9.19.0.0.0 
the last date at Quirigua (Structure 1), one hotun, namely that ending in 9.17.5.0.0, 
being commemorated by two monuments (eels A and C). This is the most 
satisfactory sequence of all, so much so, in fact, that before the discovery of the last 
monument at Quirigua, Stela S, in 1913, the writer had predicted that if another 
monument were found there it would record either of the hotun-endings 9.15.15.0.0, 
Or 9.19.0.0.0, 1.¢., the two open ends of the sequence at that time. Subsequently 
‘Mr. M. D. Landry, of the United Fruit Company, found Stela S a kilometer south- 
west of the main group, and this proved to record the date 9.15.15.0.0, one of the 
two which had been predicted for it. 
Uaxactun.—Of the 11 sculptured stela known at this site, at least 3 record 
katun-endings, 9.14.0.0.0 (?) (Stela 1), 9.16.0.0.0 (Stela 2), and 9.19.0.0.0 (Stela 7). 
There are other early monuments here, 8.14.10.13.15 (Stela 9), 8.15.10.3.12 (?) 
tela .£)<0-3.13.010 (Stela 3), and 9.8.6.7.3 (?) (Stela 6), however, which do not 
conform to this practice, and 4 others euh are undecipherable (Stele 4, 8, 10, 
and II). 
Yaxha.—Only one monument has been dated at this site (Stela 6), and that 
very doubtfully as 9.11.5.0.0. 
La Honradez.—The to sculptured stele here are very much effaced, owing 
to the inferior quality of the limestone upon which they were carved. Only one 
has been surely dated, but it records the katun-ending, 9.17.0.0.0 (Stela 7). Other 
doubtfully deciphered monuments here are 9.17.10.0.0 (?) (Stela 6), 9.18.0.0.0 (?) 
(Stela 5), and 9.18.10.0.0 (1) (Stela 4), although there is not much doubt as to the 
dates of the last two. The latest monument at this site on stylistic grounds is 
Stela 4, and assuming that the 6 as yet undeciphered stele recorded lahuntun or 
katun-endings prior thereto—and no first or third hotun-endings have been found 
here—these would carry the series of monuments back to 9.14.0.0.0, 
Seibal.—The custom at this site appears to have been to commemorate only 
the lahuntun and katun-endings, no first or third hotun-endings having been found 
here. The following dates have been deciphered: 9.16.0.0.0 (Hieroglyphic Step), 
9.17.0.0.0 (Stela 6), 9.18.0.0.0 (Stela 12), 9.18.10.0.0 (Stela 7), 10.1.0.0.0 (Stelz 
8, 9, 10, 11), and 10.2.0.0.0 (Stela 1). The dates of Stelz 2, 3, 4, and 5 have not 
been deciphered yet; they may have marked some of the missing lahuntun-endings, 
Ixkun.—Only one monument has been surely dated at this site, 9.18.0.0.0 
(Stela 1), although the lahuntun-ending 9.18.10.0.0 is probably recorded on Stela 5. 
There is a third monument here (Stela 2), none of the dates of which, although per- 
fectly legible, appears to conform to this custom. 
Itsimte.—The dates of 4 monuments have been deciphered at this site, 2 surely 
and 2 doubtfully; all 4, however, conform to this custom, 9.14.0.0.0 (?) (Altar 1), 
g.14.10.0.0 (?) (Altar 2), 9.15.0.0.0 (Stela 5), and 9.15.10.0.0 (Stela 2). 
Altar de Sacrificios—El Pabellén.—Of the 4 decipherable monuments at these 
two sites, which are so near each other as to be really parts of the same center, 3 
record katun or lahuntun-endings, 9.10.0.0.0 (El Pabellon, Stela 1), 9.10.10.0.0 
(Altar de Sacrificios, Stela 4), and 9.14.0.0.0.0 (Altar de Sacrificios, Stela 7). 
