72 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
STELA 20. 
Provenance: Found on the mound of Stela 7 (Group 9). Now in the 
cabildo. (See plate 3, and figure 22, 2.) 
Date: g.1.10.0.0 5 Ahau 3 Tzec (?). 
Text, (a) photograph: plate 9, dD. 
(b) drawing: figures 9, 10, and II. 
The largest fragment of Stela 20 (figure 9 and plate 9, b), and in fact the 
only one whichis surely a part of this monument, was found by Spinden in 1914, 
in the house of Domingo Hernan- 
dez. In 1916, however, the writer 
discovered two other widely scat- 
tered fragments (see figure 10), one 
built into the wall of the house of 
Pedro Ramirez in the street lead- 
ing south from the southwestern 
corner of the village plaza, and the 
other in the foundations of the now 
destroyed house of Felix Galvan, 
just east of the new market on the 
street leading west from the same 
corner, and some 1oo meters distant 
from the first. (See figure 22, y 
and z respectively.) On_ being 
assembled, these last two fragments 
were found to fit together exactly and thus 

Yo 
“Gy 
SZ 
Fo 0 
(S/T) Sy 
(1) 
(ge 
Sita 
aaa 



Fic. 9.—Inscription on front and right side of Stela 
20 (Fragment 1). 
to have been parts of the same 
monument; and in the discussion which follows they will be referred to as 
one piece. Theimportant question, however, is whether or not this second 
piece is a part of the same monument as the fragment found by Spinden 
in the house of Domingo Hernandez in 1914. 


Uj 

Uy Le Mf 
Y, 
Fic. 10.—Inscription on back and sides of Stela 20 (Fragments 2 and 3). 
The answer to this question must be ascertained, first from the measure- 
ments of the two pieces, next from their subject-matter, 7. ¢., the inscription, 
and finally from the stylistic criteria present. 
pieces are compared on page 73. 
The measurements of the two 
