138 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [VoL. VI. 
with his head tied up, dak. The whole may be rendered pach chabacob, 
they took prisoners. W 15 is can uaxac tockob, the four opposers, or 
fighters, of Oaxaca; and X 15 is kunkal ahauob, twenty chiefs, “pach 
chabacob can Uaxac tockob hunkal ahauob:” “The four opponents of 
Oaxaca took twenty chiefs prisoners.” S, T, U, V, W 16 are all well 
known. “ Ahkpop Cakaaxha Cah Cawek ahpop nakob:” “The Ahpop 
Cakaaxha and the Ahpop of the House of Cawek meet.” X 16 is 
nakxicinob; and S 17 is Cazichxtk, who seems to have been the most 
notorious enemy of the allied monarchs. This briefest of all sentences - 
reads: “nakxicinob Caichxik:” “They utterly destroyed Caichxik.” 
The last sentence reveals Oxlahun-Pek as the author of the inscription. 
T 17 is waxac, 8, and zch, the face, denoting Oaraca zch, into Oaxaca. 
U 17 consists of ho, 5, and &zz, the sun, making hokznx, I set out. V 17 
is the familiar Oxlahun-Pek ; and W, X 17 are equally well known as 
Cah Cawek and Ahpop. This historical statement is: “ Uarac ich 
hokin Oxlahun-Pek, Cah Cawek Ahpop:” “1, Oxlahun-Pek, Ahpop of 
the House of Cawek, set out for Oaxaca.” | 
Such is the completion of the main inscription ofthe tablet. Though 
the explanation of the signs may appear sufficiently simple, it was not 
arrived at without much careful comparison and analysis. Scholars 
possessing a more complete and accurate knowledge of the Maya 
language and its related dialects, may be able to improve, in some 
respects, upon the reading of individual hieroglyphics, and upon the 
interpretation of their phonetic equivalents ; otherwise the translation 
given is substantially the meaning of the document. It remains to test 
the main part of the story with the summary or the addenda contained 
in the central or pictorial part of the Tablet. These addenda form the 
subject of the following chapter. 
CHA Bi Val 
THE NEW SYSTEM OF READING THE HIEROGLYPHICS: THE 
DETACHED CENTRAL GROUPS. 
The group on the left consists of two divisions. The first contains 
G, H, I, K, and LI to 6; and the second, L7 to 10. Taking them in 
order, G is at once recognized as Lolon Pak, the city of Palenque. H 
is Uaxac kuxilek. J begins with the conventional ca, followed by oz, 3, 
after which comes an entirely new hieroglyphic. This may be regarded 
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