I20 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
block is preserved and that only in part, present height 16 cm. and present 
width 23 cm. The relief is low and flat. Theleft halfofthe glyph appears to 
be the head of God C in the Schellhas classification. (Note the characteristic 
dots in front of the face.) The upper part of the right half might possibly 
be the day-sign Ahau, and the lower part the normal form for the cycle-sign. 
Fragment V'tr. This is a very small piece showing only two numerical 
dots. It was found on the mound of Stela 7 during the excavations of June 
1919. (See figure 22, 2’.) 
Fragment V't2. This is a very small piece, which was found on the 
mound of Stela 7 during the excavations of June 1919. (See figure 22, /’.) 
Fragment V'13. ‘This piece was found in the south wall of the house of 
‘ Clementino Lopez. (See figure 22, s’.) It has a plain marginal band on the 
left side, but the sculptured design to the right shows no interglyph spaces 
for its entire length of 34 cm., so that it is doubtful whether it was ever 
part of a glyph, being more like a decorative element. 
Fragment V'1t4. This very small piece (figure 20, h) was found in the 
chamber underneath the foundation-stone of Stela 7 during the excavations 
of June 1919. It is now in the Peabody Museum of Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts. (See figure 22, 7’.) 
The provenance of these 14 Fragments V’, 7.¢., in the immediate vicinity 
of several incomplete archaic stele, together with their indubitably archaic 
style, makes it probable, as already suggested, that some of them were orig- 
inally parts of one or more of these early stele, which ones, however, it is 
impossible to say definitely with the insufficient evidence at hand. Other 
fragments will doubtless come to light from time to time as houses are pulled 
down in this quarter of the village, and it is therefore highly important that 
such pieces should be rescued and placed on record before they are destroyed. 
At any time other missing pieces may be recovered which will be found to fit 
with one or other of the above fragments or known stele, and which event- 
ually may permit the reconstruction and decipherment of these early texts.! 
FRAGMENT S’. 
Provenance: Original position unknown. Found in the inclined facing 
on the eastern side of Mound 9 at the Main Structure. 
(See plate 6.) 
Date: Close of the Early Period. 
Text, drawing: figure 21. 
Reference: Gordon, 1896, p. 21. 

1This has already been exemplified in the cases of Stele 20 and 25. In 1915 the writer removed a medium- 
sized fragment from the west wall of the house of Pedro Ramirez (see figure 22, y) and had it taken to the cabildo. 
In March of the following year, during the course of tearing down the house of Felix Galvan, just east of where 
the market now stands (see figure 22, z), another inscribed fragment was discovered in its foundations. These two 
pieces were found to fit together and to have been parts of Stela 20, the other piece of which was found by Spinden 
in still a third place, the house of Domingo Hernandez, in 1912. (See figure 22, w.) 
Again, one of the two pieces of Stela 25 (the left-hand fragment) was found on the mound of Stela 7 in 1918, 
and it was not until the following year that the other piece (the right-hand fragment) turned up at the house of 
Domingo Hernandez. These two examples well illustrate the extreme importance of rescuing all inscribed frag- 
ments and placing them on record, since at any time other pieces may be located, which, fitting with those 
already recovered, may enable us to decipher their corresponding dates. 
