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INITIAL SERIES OF COPAN INSCRIPTIONS 



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tlu' circle of dots on the cheek, indicating 9 (see figure 132). There- 

 fore the series so far as satisfactorily made out — assuming the niimljer 

 attached to the day Ahau to be 2 — is as follows: ■'-l)-'.i-?-()-0, 2 Ahau 

 13 Pop. This is sufficient to determine the seines, and shows the 

 above rendering to be correct. 



A B 



Pig. 151. Part of inscription on the east side of Stela P. Copau. Maudslay. part 4. plate LXXXIX. 



Although the drawings in Maudslay's work are in most cases of 

 unusual excellence, giving details with wonderful accuracy, that of 

 this inscription and the one on altar Q (part 4, plate xcili) are not up 

 to the usual standard, failing in some instances to bring out as 

 clearly as might be done some of the minor details. There is some 

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