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tribute he killed.” Then comes ca,and below it thun, ca, pet, a long tun, 
and can. Thus: “ katun kebatthan can: “the army to rebel telling.” 
Opposite the ankles of Oxlahun is something that may possibly read 
katun ca tsuc (part) ca, or two katuns of twenty years, and two ¢sucs or 
periods of four years, making the event occur in the forty-eighth year of 
the king. 
The Tablet is not yet exhausted. Under the right hand limb of the 
cross, and between N 1 and 2, and the ornamentation in front of 
Oxlahun, is a line of characters. <A little to the left appear ca and tun, 
and then, at the head of the line, fez. Below it come Zuz and ¢un, after- 
wards ca, fun, a peculiar form of dak, next pet hun, and finally pak. The 
whole is: “katun bet hunten ca tun bak patan pach:” “The army made 
at one time two to the four hundred tribute prisoners.” The correspond- 
ing line on the left side of M 1 and 2 presents zz, the wing, hun tun, 
che-ox-ak, the three branched tree, ca pet, and a possible zak. These 
give: “ vc hunten Cheoxak kebat nak:” “divides at one time Cheoxak the 
rebels’ abdomen.” The last obscure line is between the lower part of 
L and the base of the cross. It consists of ox 3, the symbol for division, 
aic and dahun, 10, followed by ca fet, after which seem to come ahau, pet 
and ¢uv. The reading may be: “yok atc lukun kebat ahau patan:” 
“Over dividing secession they rebelled against the king’s tribute.” 
Other parts of the carving may be significant, but the explanations given 
may be fairly said to exhaust the text of this remarkable inscription. 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE TEXT AND TRANSLATION OF THE TABLET. 
Taking the story of the Tablet in its order, a commencement is made 
with the left hand series of ninety-nine groups of characters, read in lines 
from left to right like European writing. 
Ox kuxil ahauob Nakhun Uactokob Bolon pak Holhun 
Three disaffected chiefs Nakhun, Huastecs Palenque city Holhun 
puchtunob Uaxac Hunich nakxicinob ca Uxmal'yok dzan xulob 
fought Oaxaca Hunich destroyed when Uxmal before ruining they 
ended 
Holpop Cah Cawek bet Canich Nohpat cah yaxchun tsolob 
Holpop house Cawek made Canich Nohpat to be beginning lines. 
