THOMAS| COPAN INSCRIPTIONS—STELA J 781 
Fourtn Anau—l440 Days 
Tt will be observed that the reckoning of the days is missing here—a fact that will 
become important when we reach the next ahau. 
Second glyph—As a portion of this is obliterated we will pass it by. It is a waste 
of time to study illegible glyphs when the missing part is not restorable from what 
is left or from the context. 
Third glyph—Same remarks. 
Fiera Anau—1800 Days 
Second glyph—18 X40=720 X2=1,440; hence this glyph should have gone with the 
preceding ahau. 
Third glyph—A symbol which appropriately denotes the beginning of a fifth ahau 
in several other places in the inscriptions. I call attention to the peculiar character 
of the wing, or whatever it may be termed. It is not the ordinary form, signifying 
20, but must have the value of 86—10x5=50 x 36=1800. 
Sixta AnAu—2160 Days 
Second glyph—The under number being 4 here, the character above the coils should 
represent 30, but instead it represents only 25—1825=450<4—=1800; hence this 
glyph should have gone with the fifth ahau. 
Third glyph—The 20-day sign again, qualified by a character which the connection 
requires to be a sign for 108—108 x 20=2160. 
Fourth glyph—An arbitrary sign, probably, for 6 ahaus or a sixth ahau. 
SreventH AnHAU—2520 Days 
Second glyph—18 X4=72 X35=2520. 
Third glyph—Two of the characters encountered above reappear here, associated 
with a knot which we know to be a sign for 5 or some of its multiples. As neither 
10, 15, nor 20 added to the other characters would form a number that would bean 
even divisor of 2,520, we must consider this a sign for 5 and the character underneath 
it to represent 60—10+27+5=42 x 60=2520. The subfix here, consequently, not- 
withstanding its resemblance to the character representing 72, can have no value, 
but must serve merely as a pedestal, as it does under the day symbols. 
EicutH AHAu—2880 Days 
Second glyph—18 X 40=720 X 4= 2880. 
Third glyph—18 X 40=720X4=2880. The subfix is without value here also. 
Fourth glyph—Too defaced to justify any estimate of it. 
Ninto AnAu—3240 Days 
The computation, if there was one, and the equivalents are defaced beyond the 
possibility of recognition. ; 
Trento AHAU—3600 Days 
The ahau sign here differs from all the rest. It is the symbol used in a Tikal 
tablet to denote a date to be a tenth ahau. 
Second glyph—The two coils do not appear here, only one; but that one is qualified 
by a curve, signifying 5. As it can not be added without destroying the 9 element, 
it must serve as a multiplier—95=45 X40=18002=3600. The 2 sign here looks 
something like the ahaw character for 4, but the context requires it to be 2. 
Third glyph—The symbol that everywhere denotes a tenth ahau or an even 10-ahau 
reckoning, with the character that commonly constitutes its center placed beside it. 
