INSCRIPTIONS OF THE EARLY PERIOD. LE'7. 
FRAGMENTs V’, 
Provenance: Original positions unknown. Found in the excavations 
of the mound of Stela 7, or built into the walls of 
houses or in pavements in the southwestern quarter 
of the village in the immediate vicinity of Stela 7 
(Group 9). Now in the cabildo. (See plate 3, and 
figure 22, h/-v’.) 
Date: Early Period. 
Text, drawing: figure 20. 
Under Fragments V’ have been included 14 small broken pieces show- 
ing glyphs sculptured on one or more sides. All were found in the south- 
western quarter of the village in the immediate vicinity of the mound of Stela 
7 (see figure 22, h’-v’), and some at least probably belong to one or other of 
the broken archaic stele also found nearby, Stele 22, 25, 20, 24, 15, 21, and 
18. When the writer was at Copan in March 1916 he removed all these from 
the various houses and pavements into which they had been built, and placed 
them in the cabildo under the custody of the village authorities; and in 1919 
he installed a small local museum in a room at the southern end of the cabildo, 
where all the fragmentary inscriptions subsequently found were brought 
together. A list of t e monuments and fragments left in the cabildo in June 
1919 follows: 
A. UNDER THE FRONT CorRIDOR OF THE CABILDO. 
1. Stela 7, two large pieces. 
2. Stela 15, two large pieces and one small piece. 
B. Next To Last Room at SouTHERN ENp. 
3. Stela 22, one medium piece. 
4. Stela 21, one small piece. 
5. Stela 20, one large piece and two medium pieces, the latter fitting together. 
6. Stela 24, one large piece. 
7. Stela 25, two small pieces. 
8. Fragment E’, one small piece. 
g. Fragment Y’, one small piece. 
10. Fragment Z’, one small piece. 
11, Altar S, complete i in one piece. 
12. Fragments V’, I-13. 
Concerning the last, Fragments V’, it should be noted before proceeding 
with their detailed examination that all were found within a radius of 100 
meters of Stela 7, and all are probably pieces of one or other of the monu- 
ments also found in the immediate vicinity. 
In making assignments of Fragments V’ to these several stele, the best 
line of evidence available is the sizes of their respective glyph-blocks. While 
these vary as much as 2 or 3 cm. on a single monument in extreme cases, on 
the whole they are exceedingly uniform and furnish the best criterion of 
comparison between any two pieces. In order to facilitate such comparisons 
in the descriptions which follow, a table of the sizes of the glyph-blocks on 
these monuments is given at the top of page 118, all measurements being 
in centimeters. 
