THE COPAN INSCRIPTIONS. 131 



Stela E. 



There is absolutely nothing in this inscription by which the date can be fixed, the 

 cycle and katun numerals being unrecognizable. I think the day and month are 

 2 Ix-7 Yax. 



Stela F. 



Initial date: 54—9—14 — 10 — 18x20 — 5 Ahau-3 Mac. This date is given 

 irrespectively of the reading in the inscription, which is as follows : 5 Ahau-3 Mac, 

 10 ahaus to the beginning of the 15th katun. And then, as usual, come symbols for a 

 lot of periods commencing with that date. 



Stela I. 



Initial date: 54 — 9 — 12— 3— 14 x 20— 5 Ahau — the month date should be 8 Uo,' 

 but the glyph, which here follows after the initial directive series, is obliterated. 

 There is nothing else intelligible except in the third row. There 10 Ahau-13 Chen is 

 designated as the beginning of a katun — an 8th katun, as given ; but the only katun 

 of which that date could be the beginning, during a period of 18,720 years, is the 6th 

 katun of the 8th cycle of the 54th great cycle ; hence the 8 is probably a mistake. 

 There follows a reckoning of 8 days and 10 chuens from 10 Ahau-13 Chen to 10 

 Lamat — the month date not given, but we know it must be 16 Pop. 



Stela J. 



West side. Initial date : 54—9—12 — 12 — 18x20 — 1 Ahau-8 Zotz. It is impossible 

 to make anything out of the rest of this inscription, or even to say in what order it 

 runs, except the line crossing near the bottom and continuing at the top of the north 

 face, which reads: 7 Ahau, a 10th ahau, 3 Cumhu, a 10th ahau — 20x18 — 10 — 6, 

 to the 20th (or initial) score days beginning the 10th cycle — 7 Ahau-13 Zip. The 

 month numeral here is a mistake ; it should be 18 Zip. The rest of the inscription 

 on the north and south sides has been given elsewhere. East side. Notwith- 

 standing Maudslay's attempt to straighten out these glyphs there is something wrong 

 in their arrangement yet. The initial date is: 54—9 — 13 — 10 — 18x20; the day 

 and month should be 7 Ahau-13 Cumhu, a date we have just seen on the opposite 

 side of the stela. The initial directive series follows and some fragmentary reckonings, 

 but the whole is so incoherent that nothing can be made out of it. 



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