Remembering that this number is to be counted forward from the date 12 Caban 5 Kayab, and applying rules 1, 2, and 3 (pp. [139], [140], and [141], respectively), the terminal date reached will be 1 Ahau 3 Zip, which is recorded in A19. Compare the coefficient of the day sign in A19a with the coefficient of the katun sign in A18a, and the day sign itself with the profile variant for Ahau in figure [16], h', i'. For the month sign, compare A19b with figure [19], d. But since the Initial-series value of the starting point is known, we may calculate from it the Initial-series value of the new terminal date:
| 9. | 14. | 13. | 4. | 17] | 12 Caban 5 Kayab |
| 1. | 16. | 13. | 3] | ||
| 9. | 16. | 10. | 0. | 0] | 01 Ahau 3 Zip |
Passing over to the east side of this monument, the student will find recorded there the continuation of this inscription (see pl. [20]).[[201]] This side, like the other, opens with an introducing glyph A1-B2, which is followed by an Initial Series in A3-A5. Although this number is expressed by head variants, the forms are all familiar, and the student will have little difficulty in reading it as 9.16.10.0.0. The terminal date which this number reaches is recorded in B5-B8; that is, 1[[202]] Ahau 3 Zip, the "month indicator" appearing as a head variant in A8 with the head-variant coefficient 10. But this date is identical with the date determined by calculation and actually recorded at the close of the inscription on the other side of this monument, and since no later date is recorded elsewhere in this text, we may conclude that 9.16.10.0.0 1 Ahau 3 Zip represents the contemporaneous time of Stela F, and hence that it was a regular hotun-marker. Here again, as in the case of Stela J at Quirigua, the importance of the "contemporaneous date" is emphasized not only by the fact that all the other dates lead up to it, but also by the fact that it is expressed as an Initial Series.
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGYBULLETIN 57 PLATE 20
INITIAL SERIES ON STELA F (EAST SIDE), QUIRIGUA
