
582 

THE INSC 
RIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
List of Hotun-markers during the Old Empire. 

Earty PeErtiop. 

Monument. 
Kind of date. 
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HOVE hsgode b GAL 


Tikal 
Stela (Sry sca caeec eee 
Period Ending. 
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oo 018 o: 0, 6 0 6 <0 ee We (epieve: eee eni eile lineal 
F ate = erg . + has ee 
Period Ending. 
Period Ending. 
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[ba © 6 0, chs we je 0) 6 ellinve 1 © 0) el ereleteie 
86. (Oe Cee 08 Ce me Oe Bee (0) .5) Rae in eee 
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06 ae 0 ee Sew 68 6 0 «6 eee Clasp See 
0, 0.\01j0) 6 'e Que (0.0) Bie (Bee) s\\6) oles sw sleeane 
S 0.816) © 0) (0, 08) 010 » oe) Oa 6 a0) 0 (wiamualeiena 
eevee twee 6 ¢ 0 6.6 6 © 8 6 «hele einem 
1This important date, the beginning of the cycle during which the Maya reached their first great cultural 
efflorescence, is recorded, although not as a contemporaneous date, at several places: here at Copan on Stele 15 
and 3 for example (see pp. 88, 89, and 157); again on the tablet in the Temple of the Cross at Palenque (see 
Morley, 1915, p. 228); and finally as the opening entry in the u kahlay katunob from the Books of Chilan Balam of 
Mani and Tizimin, according to the writer’s correlation of Old and New Empire chronology (see Appendix II, 
P. 503). 
2This is possibly the oldest contemporaneous hotun-ending known. 
3This date is recorded by the Initial Series on the west side of Stela C at Quirigua, the contemporaneous date 
of which is shown by a Period Ending date to have been about 325 years later, 7. ¢., in 9.17.5.0.0. (See Morley, 
I9QI5, pp. 173-175, 179, note 1, 226.) 
4This is probably the earliest contemporaneous date at Copan. 
’This is the earliest surely deciphered hotun, lahuntun, or katun-ending known. 
°On the tablet in the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque, the ro katun-endings from 9.4.0.0.0 to 9.13.0.0.0 
inclusive are recorded, the first as an Initial Series, the others as Period Ending dates, the last being the contem- 
poraneous date of the temple. (See Morley, 1915, p. 84, note I.) 
7This date is also recorded by the Initial Series on Stela 1 at Tuluum. The contemporaneous date of this 
monument, however, 10.6.10.0.0, just one cycle later, is expressed by a Period Ending date. (See Morley, 1916a, 
PP. 338, 3393 thid., 1918a, pp. 274, 275.) 
’This date also appears as a tun-ending on a square altar at Chinikiha (plate 1), although not as its contem- 
poraneous date, the month-sign being the unusual dog-head variant of the month Kankin first deciphered by the 
writer in 1914, and the tun-sign “the winged-Cauac” variant, deciphered by the writer in 1918. (See Maler, 
1go!, plate 2, A-c.) 
°This date is recorded as a Period Ending, although not the contemporaneous date, of the tablet in the 
Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque. (See Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. rv, plate 57.) 

