88 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
Io tuns in AS—B5, and o uinals in acs-Bo. The kin-sign is recorded at B7 on 
fragment 3; the kin coefficient and terminal date are missing. 
Arguing from antecedent probability in such Initial Series (7. ¢., where 
the tun coefficient is either 0, 5, 10, or 15, and the uinal coefficient 0), the 
missing kin coefficient can hardly have been other than 0; and we may 
assume that a lahuntun-ending in the Long Count was probably recorded 
here, 9.4.10.0.0. That this assumption is correct, the writer was able to 
demonstrate by the discovery of a lahuntun-sign on fragment 2, thus con- 
firming this reading. 
An examination of the mound of Stela 7 in 1912 had disclosed several 
small fragments, one of which appeared to have the coefficients of the 
terminal date of Stela 15, as deciphered. by Spinden, 1.¢., 12 (Ahau)! 8 (Mol), 
e200 CCS the day-sign, and the greater part of the month-sign having 
f—— >) been broken off. And in 1915, when the writer next visited 
Copan, he had this piece removed to the cabildo, where it was there found 
to fit exactly against the bottom of fragment 2, and was, in fact, a part of 
Stela 15. The front of this new piece shows the kin-sign of the Initial Series 
number (B7, plate 12) just below the full-figure form of the uinal, 7. ¢., the 
toad or frog in B6. 
Curiously enough, what had been mistaken for the day and month 
coefficients 12 and 8 respectively of the Initial Series terminal date on the 
back of this fragment in 1912, on closer study in 1915 turned out to be 12 or 
7 (?) 6 (?), or the coefficients of another date. O20 Ey Thus the former 
reading, incorrect as it later proved to be, ——~<— = was the means of 
identifying this fragment as a part of Stela 15. 
The last glyph on the back of fragment 2 (F6d), 
side opposite the Initial Series, is the well-known ¥ sign for the 
lahuntun, which is used only on monuments, which cy record the 
ends of second hotuns (7. ¢., lahuntuns) in the Long Count. Its presence 
here renders practically certain Spinden’s reading of this Initial Series. As 
already suggested, Altar Q’ probably records this same lahuntun-ending 
and may have been the altar originally associated with this stela. (See p. 62.) 
One of the narrow faces of Stela 15 has the month-sign 13 Kayab (c3) 
following the Initial Series introducing glyph (ci-c2). It is impossible, 
however, to connect this with any other date in the text. 
A more interesting and perhaps a better understood 
date occurs in D5—p6 on the same side, in which ce, D6 WAU 
JY, 
possibly records the Calendar Round date 8 Ahau 13 ?, Ga 
the month-sign being a human head. ps appears to be a tun-ending sign, 
although this identification is not certain. 
Assuming that the date 8 Ahau 13 ? ended some even tun of the Early 
Period, it can be found from Goodman’s tables that there are only six 






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‘Matter inclosed in parentheses does not appear in the text as preserved. Such omissions are due to one of 
two causes: either the missing part may have been effaced or broken off, as here, or, as in other cases, it may have 
been understood, 7. ¢., supplied mentally, without the necessity of actually recording it. 
