118 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
Front. Sides. 
Heights. | Widths. | Heights. | Widths. 
Monument. 
Stela Ts eee 29-31 
18-20 15-16 

Fragment V'r. ‘This piece (figure 20, a) was found in the north wall of 
. the house of Domingo Hernandez, whither it had been carried from the 
mound of Stela 7 in 1897. (See figure 22, p’ and q’). The single sculptured 
face preserved has remains of two vertical columns of glyph-blocks, each 
block being 17 cm. high and 24 to 25 cm. wide, indicating that this 
fragment is probably from the front or back of a stela and not from 
the sides. Judging from the glyph-blocks, the original width of the 
monument must have been about 70 cm. Only one of the glyphs is familiar, 
the sign for Kankin. 


Fic. 20.—Inscriptions on: a, Fragment V’1; 6, Fragment V’9; c, Fragment V’10; d, Fragment V’2; 
e, Fragment V’6; f, Fragment V’3; g, Fragment V’s5; 4, Fragment V’14. 
The side adjoining the sculptured face is so badly effaced that it is 
now impossible to say whether it had formerly been plain or sculptured. 
The relief is low and resembles that of the other archaic monuments in the 
immediate vicinity. 
A comparison of the size of the glyph-blocks of this fragment with those 
given in the above table will show that the only ones of similar size are those 
on the side of Stela 20; but we have already seen that the side adjoining the 
sculptured face of this fragment, in spite of much weathering, looks as 
though it had always been plain, indicating that we are dealing with a Class 1 
or Class 2 stela, and therefore the possibility of its having been a part of 
Stela 20 may be eliminated, as the latter is in Class 3. 
