INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY PERIOD. 63 
ALTAR P’, 
Provenance: Found on the mound of Stela 7 (Group 9). Destroyed 
in I915 or 1916. (See plate 3 and hgure 22, d’.) 
Date: H10-0.070°t0 0,5 -0.0.0. 
During the writer’s visit to Copan in April 1915, he found at the western 
edge of the mound of Stela 7, in the yard of the house of Clementino Lopez, 
in the southwestern quarter of the village (see figure 22, d’), a badly effaced 
fragment of what appeared to be an archaic altar. Although only very faint 
traces of the original design were preserved, it was possible to distinguish the 
outlines of three glyph-blocks in a vertical column and one or two scrolls or 
circles above. The single side preserved was dressed, but not carved. The 
condition of the stone was such that it was unsafe to attempt to date it even 
upon stylistic grounds, other than to refer it to the early part of Cycle 9. 
It appears to have been destroyed about the same time as Altars L’ and M’, 
as the writer could not find it when he was at Copan in March 1916. 
ALTAR X. 
Provenance: Original position unknown. Found 1 kilometer west 
of the Main Structure in the foundations of Stela 5 
(Group 8). (See plate 3.) 
Date: 9.3. 6.17.18 11 Eznab 1 Kankin (?) or 
9.5.19.12.18 11 Eznab 1 Kankin (?) or 
9.8.12. 7.18 11 Eznab 1 Kankin (?). 
Text, (a) photograph: plate 8, c. 
(b) drawing: Gordon, 19024, plate 13. 
References: Gordon, 1896, pp. 42, 43. 
Gordon, 19024, pp. 130-132, 139-143. 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1 of text, pp. 66, 67. 
Spinden, 1913, p. 161, 164, and table 1. 
Altar X is 1.22 meters long, 91 cm. wide, and 30 cm. thick. When found, 
it was serving as the pedestal of Stela 5, about a third of a meter below the 
level of the pavement of small stones which had surrounded this monument. 
It is sculptured on its top and four sides, with a design of bands crossing each 
other at right angles and dividing each sculptured face into four compart- 
ments of equal size. The top compartments are plain. Those on the long 
sides show human figures, and those on the ends are inscribed with glyphs. 
(See plate 8,c.) There are four of these glyph panels, each containing 4 
glyphs, a total of 16 for the entire text. The sculpture is in very low, flat 
relief. 
The first two glyphs, a1, B1 (plate 8,c), record a Calendar Round date,! 
which reads as follows: 11 Lamat or Eznab, 1, 2, or 3 Kankin. Since neither 
Lamat nor Eznab can occupy the third or fourth position in any month,’ 
it is obvious that the month coefficient recorded here must be that corre- 


1Calendar Round dates recurred at intervals of 52 years, and unless additional data are present (i. ¢., the 
corresponding Initial Series or Period Endings) they can not be assigned to their proper positions in Maya chro- 
nology. 
2The only positions either of these days could ever occupy were the second, seventh, twelfth, or seventeenth. 
