The third Secondary Series appears in E1 and consists of 15 kins,[223] 8 uinals, and 3 tuns, or 3.8.15. Reducing this number to units of the first order and counting it forward from the date next preceding it in the text, 4 Cimi 14 Uo, in D5-C6, the new terminal date reached will be 11 Imix 14 Yax, which the student will find recorded in E2 F2. The day sign in E2 appears, as is very unusual, as a head variant of which only the headdress seems to show the essential element of the day sign Imix. Compare E2 with figure 16, _a, b_, also the month sign in F2 with figure 19, _q, r_. The Initial Series of this new terminal date may be calculated as above: 9.13.16. 4. 6 4 Cimi 14 Uo 3. 8.15 9.13.19.13. 1 11 Imix 14 Yax The fourth and last Secondary Series in this text follows in F6 and consists of 19 kins and 4 uinals, that is, 4.19. Reducing this number to units of the first order and counting it forward from the date next preceding it in the text, 11 Imix 14 Yax in E2 F2, the new terminal date reached will be 6 Ahau 13 Muan, which the student will find recorded in F7-F8. Compare the month sign in F8 with figure 19, _a' b'_. But the glyph following this date in F9 is very clearly an ending sign; note the hand, tassel-like postfix, and subfixial element showing the curl infix, all of which are characteristic ending elements (see figs. 37, _l-q_, and 54). Moreover, in F10 is recorded "the end of Katun 14." Compare the ending prefix in this glyph with figure 37, _a-h_. This would seem to indicate that the date in F7-F8, 6 Ahau 13 Muan, closed Katun 14 of Cycle 9 of the Long Count. Whether this be true or not may be tested by finding the Initial-series value corresponding to 6 Ahau 13 Muan, as above: 9.13.19.13. 1 11 Imix 14 Yax 4.19 9.14. 0. 0. 0 6 Ahau 13 Muan [Illustration: INITIAL SERIES, SECONDARY SERIES, AND PERIOD-ENDING DATES ON STELA E (WEST SIDE), QUIRIGUA] {235} This shows that the date 6 Ahau 13 Muan closed Katun 14, as glyphs F9-F10 declare. This may also be verified by changing "the end of Katun 14" recorded in F9-F10 into its corresponding Initial-series value, 9.14.0.0.0, and solving for the terminal date. The day reached by these calculations will be 6 Ahau 13 Muan, as above. This text, in so far as it has been deciphered, therefore reads: 9.12. 2. 0.16 5 Cib 14 Yaxkin A1-A4, B7 12.10. 0 C1 D1 9.12.14.10.16 1 Cib 14 Kankin C2b D2a 1. 1.11.10 D4-C5a 9.13.16. 4. 6 4 Cimi 14 Uo D5-C6 3. 8.15 E1 9.13.19.13. 1 11 Imix 14 Yax E2 F2 4.19 F6 9.14. 0. 0. 0 6 Ahau 13 Muan F7-F8 End of Katun 14 F9-F10