INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY PERIOD. 109 
fourth almost certainly declare the Initial Series terminal date. The first 
glyph on this side (ci u.h.) is very clearly Glyph C of the Supplementary 
Series! The second glyph (c1 1. h.) is one of the forms of the variable 
Glyph X, which almost always stands between Glyphs C and B of the Sup- 
plementary Series. The third glyph (c2a, u. h.) is Glyph B of the Supple- 
mentary Series; and, the fourth (c2d, u. h.) is Glyph A of the Supplementary 
Series. Following this, in the regular position in c2 1. h., c3 is the Initial Series 
terminal date above mentioned. 
A correction in Maudslay’s drawing of c2 |. h. should be noted 
here. A careful study of the original proved beyond any possibility of 
doubt that this glyph is 10 Ahau. A comparison of the writer’s drawing 
with that of Maudsla shows that a very slight 
change in the latter will make it look like the former. 

Glyph c3 as drawn by Maudslay is substantially correct, and it records 
either 8 Uo or 8 Zip, the uncertainty arising from the fact that the prefixial 
or superfixial element which alone differentiates these two month-signs 
from each other (see pp. 66, 67) is effaced. We therefore have recorded 
in c2 |. h. c3 either one of two dates: 10 Ahau 8 Uo, or 10 Ahau 8 Zip. 
Making the customary assumption, 7. ¢., that one of these two dates ended 
a katun, lahuntun, or hotun in the Early Period, it will be found from Good- 
man’s tables that the date 10 Ahau 8 Uo did not occur at all in Cycle 9 at 
the end of a katun, lahuntun, hotun, or even a tun, and that the date Io 
Ahau 8 Zip occurred but once, namely, at 9.5.10.0.0. But it is clear from 
the character of the sculpture on Stela E? that the latter date is too early 
for this monument, and that on stylistic grounds it also must be rejected. 
This necessitates the hypothesis that the Initial Series of Stela E did 
not record a katun, lahuntun, hotun, or tun ending in the Long Count;? 
and the next step in the elucidation of this text is to ascertain at just what 
positions in the Early Period these two dates did occur. A list of these 
follows: 
(1) 9.1. 4.14.0 10 Ahau 8 Uo (5) 9.0. 4.10.0 10 Ahau 8 Zip 
(2) 9.3.17. 9.0 10 Ahau 8 Uo (6) 9.2:17-°5.0 10 Ahau 8 Zip 
(3) 9.6.10. 4.0 10 Ahau 8 Uo (7) 9.5.10. 0.0 10 Ahau 8 Zip 
(4) 9.9. 2.17.0 10 Ahau 8 Uo (8) 9.8. 2.13.0 10 Ahau 8 Zip 
As the first, second, fifth, sixth, and seventh dates above are.much too 
early on ecoliceie grounds to have been possible here, we have: only. thee left 
from which to choose. But before attempting to decide Whictt one: »0f these 
is recorded by this Initial Series, let us first examine the remainder of the 
inscription, which is continued on the south side of the stela and concluded 
on the periphery of the round altar, which was associated with it. 

1See Appendix VI. 
2For the position of Stela E in the stylistic sequence of monuments at Copan, see Spinden, 1913, table 1. 
8The accuracy of this hypothesis, of course, also depends upon the correctness of the original assumption 
that c2 1. h. c3 is the terminal date of this Initial Series, concerning which there can be but little doubt. 
