6G COPAN. 



the earlier series, and to mould some inscriptions from monuments discovered by the 

 Peabody Museum Expeditions. 



Stela 1. (Plate C.) 



Position : 

 Western base of Mound No. 9, facing west. 



This monument was found broken and fallen, and has been replaced in an upright 

 position. The base of the stela was found in place by the Peabody Museum 

 Expedition, on the second step of the stairway forming the western slope of 

 Mound 9. 



A circular altar with an almost obliterated inscription was lying beside the fallen 

 stela. 



Stela 2. (Plates CI.-CII. and CUE, a.) 



Position : 

 Southern base of angular extension of Mound 10. 



This monument had fallen, and was placed in an upright position by the Peabody 

 Museum Expedition. In style both the figure and inscription resemble those on 

 Stela P, the much-damaged Stela 3, and Stela 7. 



Stela 3, lying to the south of Mound 4, is so much destroyed that no drawings 

 of it have been made. 



Stela 4. (Plates CUE, I & c, and CIV.) 



Position : 

 Near the centre of the Great Plaza. 



This monument is fallen and broken in pieces. Mr. Erwin Dieseldorff, who was in 

 Copan for some weeks in 1894, made an excavation at the base of the monument and 

 found the carved stone of which a drawing is given on Plate CIV.* This stone is, 



* The small cruciform vaults usually found beneath the monoliths are described in the Peabody Museum 

 Memoirs. 



