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The text continues with a Distance Number at P12-Q12 that counts forward in time from Casper's birth, the verb for which is repeated at P13, with his name at Q13. This Distance Number of 13 years, 3 months and 9 days leads to the Calendar Round date for Casper's accession, 2 Kab'an 10 Xul (8.19.19.11.17). Casper was only thirteen years old when he became ruler. The verb for accession is not stated explicitly at this point in the inscription. Instead, another distance number - 6 months and 3 days (P15) - counts forward from the time of the accession (with the verb explicit at Q15) to the period ending of the ninth bak'tun (S2). In his 1993 Texas Maya Meetings presentation, Peter Mathews described this as a "couplet expression", where the first half of the couplet states a date but does not say what happened on that date, while the second half says what happened but doesn't repeat the date. The passage reads "it was three days and six months from when [P15] the white headband was tied [Q15] by him [P16] Casper [Q16] and then it happened [P17] 8 Ajaw 13 Keh [Q17-R1] he completed [S1] 9 bak'tuns [R2] at Toktan [S2]". |