98 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
monument previously known with a human figure is Stela 7 (9.9.0.0.0). The 
evidence of a human figure on Stela 18 makes it practically certain that a human 
figure once existed on the unmolded side of Stela 9,’ and it may be regarded as 
established that full-length human sculptures in stone were known at Copan in 
Katun 4, and that they were probably very similar, in details represented, to those 
carved a hundred years later.”’ 
Most unfortunately the text on the single fragment recovered is in poor 
condition. As one faces the monument, the left side has an Initial Series 
introducing glyph, although only its bottom part is preserved.| Ic _JIYILS! | 
Owing to the diagonal direction of the line of fracture, the corresponding 
glyphs on the back and right side are on the 
LY 
top fragment, now missing. That Initial Series 
introducing glyphs were formerly present, 
however; seems certain. Indeed, on the back 
the Initial Series number itself is partiall Oy, WUw(WW) 
WU C2 
LAY Vf 
Yii7 LY) 
preserved. (See plate 9, a, and figure 15.) 
Fic. 15.—Inscription on back of Stela 18. 














There seems to have been recorded, there- 
fore, on the back of Stela 18, an Initial Series, 
the introducing glyph of which is now missing. 
Two heads appear indistinctly in a3, figure 15, 
the first a human type, the second grotesque. 
These doubtless record 9 cycles. The entire destruction of the katun 
sign and coefficient in B3 is a very serious loss indeed, since it considerably 
increases the range of the possible readings. 

The coefficient of the tun sign in Ada 1s the clearest glyph in 
the entire inscription; and although its form is irregular, it can 
hardly be other than 0, 5, 10, or 15, on the )) grounds of antece- 
dent probability, 7. ¢., corresponding to some hotun-ending. However, this 
identification appears to rest on a somewhat firmer foundation than that of 
antecedent probability alone, as the following will tend to show, although in 
order to make the point clear a somewhat lengthy digression is necessary. 
In figure 16 is shown part of the inscription from the Temple of the 
Cross at Palenque.? At p3—cs is recorded “4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, End of 
Cycle 13,”’ and immediately following this in ps—cé is a Secondary Series of 
1.9.2. Following after several intermediate and probably non-calendric 
glyphs (not shown in figure 16) the date 13 Ik ? Mol is recorded at cg, pa, 
the month coefficient psa being something like the tun coefficient on 
Stela 18. Compare ada, figure 15, with poa, figure 16. 
Performing the calculations indicated here, it will be found that if 1.9.2 
is counted forward from 4 Ahau 8 Cumhu, the date reached will be 13 Ik 
o Chen, the day of which is recorded in c9. Passing over the month in pg 
for the moment, let us continue the inspection of the text. 

1The writer’s dissent with this view has already been noted. See p. 93. 
For the sake of brevity certain intermediate glyphs—probably of a non-calendric nature—have been omitted. 
The glyph designations in figure 16, however, correspond with those in the complete text, for a reproduction of 
which see Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. rv, plates 73-77. 
