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in the line is a second fapet. On either side of the shaft below is the 
double cartouche, giving, on the left, fez, and on the right, pak, and 
making together det pach, made prisoner. The lower cross-piece answers 
to 5, making nine with the four balls, so that, with the cartouche pak 
below, it reads Bolon pak, the city of Palenque. The whole legend is: 
“ca Chunbezah hayac chabuc en (or on) chunthan ca hun Ahau patan (ka) 
tun hun bak patan kebat hun bak katun kebat bet pach Bolon pak Chun- 
bezah,;” “then the Chunbezah, destroying, killed, when the president 
asked the tribute of the one king, four hundred rebelling against tribute 
(and) four hundred rebellious warriors taken prisoners by the Chunbezah 
of the city of Palenque.” 
A group which appears at first sight more of a pictograph than ideo- 
graphic writing, is that apparently suspended from the bird’s tail. It 
consists of ¢hun, a drop, standing for ¢tiaz, a word ; fourteen balls round 
a human face, with two more outside of their circle, making up cacanla- 
hun ich ; and 3, ox, followed by 2, ca, and yub, a dress. The whole of 
this ingenious rebus is: “ than chacanla Hunich yok chaab:” “ A word 
making manifest over the murder of the Hunich.” From the head of the 
standing figure on the left rises a three-branched tree. Tree is che, 3 is 
ok, and branch is a& ; hence cheorak may serve to denote that the per- 
sonage is Cakaaxha. In this case he is the subject of the sentence 
written in different forms on both sides of the tree. That on the left is 
0x, 3 tun, a stone, pak, a town, ca, 2, and yud,a dress. On the right it 
consists of ox, tun, pak, ca, and a shoe, ya or yab. Thus we read : “Che-. 
oxak yok tan pak chaab:” “Cakaaxha before the middle of the city 
killed.” Lower down on the left appears ox, 3; and still lower are ¢hun, 
a drop, fet, with “un, can, 4, round a cartouche containing a new hiero- 
glyphic, which may be read as duc, covering, followed by, ca,2. These 
give: “yok than patan can puchtun ca:” “Over a word refusing tribute 
when.” Below the mantle folds occur ca, 2, tw, a stone, ca, 2, pet, circle, 
tun, stone, the tree figure holding a stone, ¢#z, with another ca, another 
pet, a fourth ca, and a yub. Thus we have: “katun kebatthan puchtun 
kebat chaab;” “ The army revolting, the quarrelsome revolters he kills.” 
From the back of the figure on the right hangs a line of beads or 
wampum, thirteen in number, at the end of which is something like a 
hand, but as it has an eye, it may represent a dog, pek. At the back of 
his hat is ca, 2, and to the right, a group, ox tun or yok tan, and another 
below it, ca pet tun, or kapetthan. Coming back to the space between R 
and the figure, one meets ¢huz, a drop, pet and hun, followed by ca and 
yub. Then read: “ Oxlahun Pek ca yok tan kebatthan tan patan chaab:” 
“ Oxlahun Pek when before the centre (of the city) the revolters towards 
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