In plate 21, _C_, is figured a Period-ending date taken from Stela 23 at Naranjo.[205] The date 6 Ahau 13 Muan appears very clearly in glyphs 1 and 2 (compare the month form with fig. 19, _a', b'_). Glyph 3 is the ending sign, here showing three common "ending elements," (1) the clasped hand; (2) the element with the curl infix; (3) the tassel-like postfix. Compare this form with the ending signs in figure 37, _l-q_, and with the zero signs in figure 54. In glyph 4 is recorded the particular katun, 14, which came to its end on the date recorded in 1 and 2. The element prefixed to the Katun 14 in glyph 4 is also an ending sign, though it always occurs as a prefix or superfix attached to the sign of the period whose close is recorded. Examples illustrating its use are shown in figure 37, _a-h_, with which the ending element in glyph 4 should be compared. The glyphs 1 to 4 in plate 21, _C_, therefore record that Katun 14 came to an end on the date 6 Ahau 13 Muan. As we have seen above, this could be shown to correspond with the Initial Series 9.14.0.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Muan. This same date, 6 Ahau 13 Muan ending Katun 14, is also recorded on Stela 16 at Tikal (see pl. 21, _D_).[206] The date itself appears in glyphs 1 and 2 and is followed in 3 by a sign which is almost exactly like the ending sign in glyph 3 just discussed (see pl. 21, _C_). The subfixes are identical in both cases, and it is possible to distinguish the lines of the hand element in the weathered upper part of the glyph in 3. Compare glyph 3 with the ending signs in figure 37, _l-q_, and with the zero signs in figure 54. As in the preceding example, glyph 4 shows the particular katun whose end is recorded here--Katun 14. The period glyph itself appears as a head variant to which is prefixed the same ending prefix or superfix shown with the period glyph in the preceding example. See also figure 37, _a-h_. As above stated, the Initial Series corresponding to this date is 9.14.0.0.0 6 Ahau 13 Muan. One more example will suffice to illustrate the use of katun Period-ending dates. In plate 21, _E_, is figured a Period-ending date from Stela 4 at Copan.[207] In glyphs 1 and 2 appears the date 4 Ahau 13 Yax (compare the month in glyph 2 with fig. 19, _q, r_), which is followed by the ending sign in 3. This is composed of the hand, a very common "ending" element (see fig. 37, _j, k_) with a grotesque head superfix, also another "ending sign" (see _i, r, u, v_ of the plate just named). In glyph 4 follows the particular katun (Katun 15) whose {225} end is here recorded. This date corresponds to the Initial Series 9.15.0.0.0 4 Ahau 13 Yax.