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This larger than usual sentence is: “ Cah Cawek ahpop Oxlahun-Pek 
puchtunob katunob Uuclahun Cakaaxha can ahauob Caichxik Buluc pak 
Bolon xicmol Uxmal pak can kax ahauob nakob :” “ The warriors of the 
armies of Oxlahun-Pek, Ahpop of the House of Cawek, demolished the 
four chiefs of the Zaachilla Cocyoéza, namely Caichxik, the town of 
Buluc, the united dividers of Palenque, and the town of Uxmal, four (or 
closely) united chiefs.” 
S 3 is katunod, they fought, and T 3 is pak, building, perhaps pakmol, 
and dahun for lukun, deserting. In V 3 we have waxac lahun for uaxac 
fat u, Oaxaca these their, and ortokob for yoktockob. V 3 is uaxac ahauob. 
Thus: “katunob pakmol lukun Uaxac lat u yoktockob uaxac ahauob,’ 
They fought the united separating towns, those rebelling against 
Oaxaca’s eight chiefs.” W 3 is quite familiar, Cak Cawek, and X 3 
is ahpop. S 4 consists of ho, 5, and caban, recognized from the day 
so called, an expedient probably for yok chab, to take over. T 4 gives 
canlahun, 14, with kaaxob for chuucob, prisoners. The reading is: “Cah 
Cawek ahpop yok chab-en canlahun chuucob:” “1,the Ahpop of the House 
of Cawek, took fourteen prisoners.” U 4 is ox kox ahauob, and V 4 nak 
aicinob, followed by W. 4, ahkpop, and X 4, katun. S 5 is nak xicinob 
again, and T 5 combines ffoc, a hat, with ppul, a jar, to make pofol, 
people. Then V 5 is the conventional ca, with warac, and a circle 
suspended which may stand for the sun #zz, and, as ahken, for a priest. 
This sentence reads: “ Ox kax ahauob nak xicinob ahpop katun nak 
aicinob popol ca Uaxac ahkin :” “The army of the Ahpop destroyed the 
three united chiefs, when the priesthood of Oaxaca destroyed the 
people.” 
The succeeding groups present some difficulty. V5 begins with 
Cablahun or Cablahuh, adopting the Cachiquel form of 12; below it 
seems to be zch, the face or eye, but with the meaning of, in; and 
alongside are ca fun, or two stones. W 5 has caz, 4, meaning to tell ; 
dzib, writing, but an expedient for cz, wish; the symbol of cultivation, 
pak, and tun, a stone, with plurality, denoting puchtunob, they fight. 
X 5 seems to be or muyal, the fourth particle differing from the other 
three. It may be the border chz. S6 is canlahun, 14, and hotokob for 
hotochob, houses; and T 6 is or ahauob pet ahauob for yok ahauob bet 
ahauob, on account of chiefs making chiefs. The whole is “ Cablahun ich 
katun can cib puchtunob Uxmal chi canlahun hotochob yok ahauob bet 
ahauob:” “He tells the desire to the army with Cablahun, (that) they 
fight against the fourteen houses of the borders of Uxmal, because of 
chiefs making chiefs.’ U and V 6 are cah Cawek ahpop. W 6 is can, 
4, and baktun for puchtun; but can is rather the adverb intensifying 
