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of the tun-sign used in hotun-ending declarations. As its coefficient is 
effaced, it is barely possible a hotun-ending may have been recorded here. 
El, Fl, and F2! appear to record a Secondary Series, although the writer has 
been unable to connect it with the Initial Series. 
The first glyph (£1 u. h.) looks like 5 kins and the next (£11. h.) may be 
the day-sign Akbal. The next (Fi u. h.) iso ?, and the next (F11. h.) 8 uinals. 
There follows in the next glyph but one (F2) a sign which may be 12 Ix, 
though both the coefficient and the day-sign are doubtful. 
Whether or not pi was an Initial Series introducing glyph makes no 
difference in the total number of glyph-blocks in this text, since the Initial 
Series introducing glyph on the other side occupies the space of but one 
glyph-block. This makes 9+20+9+20=58 glyph-blocks for the entire 
inscription. 
The possibility that Stela 10 together with Stela 12 may have defined 
a certain line of sight which had to do with the location of the Acropolis in 
its present position has already been pointed out in connection with Stela 12. 
If Piofessor Willson’s suggestion should be correct that these two monuments 
were used in observing the setting of the sun, Stela 12, the eastern one, must 
have been the point of observation, and Stela 10 the object observed, since 
of the two, Stela 10 is 40 meters higher above the valley than Stela 12, and, 
moreover, is the only one of the two which stands out against the horizon. 
Altars J’ and K’, two archaic sculptures already described (p. 56) 
were found in the foundations of Stela to. ‘There is nothing, however, to 
indicate their original provenance. 
STELA Ig. 
Provenance: Inasmal valley just west of Hacienda Grande at Group 
13, 5.5 kilometers west of the Main Structure and 
1 kilometer west of Stelato. (See plate 3 and fig- 
ure 24.) YRAF Tie 
Date: g.10.19.15.0 4 Ahau 8 Chen. 
Text, (a) photograph: plate 16. 
(b) drawing: plate 16 and figure 25. 
Reference: Gordon, 1898), map facing p. 141. 
OW tee 
Stela 19 is 3.17 meters long, 63 cm. wide, and 43 cm. thick. It probably 
is the same monument as the “stela within walled enclosure” shown by 
Gordon in his map of the Copan Valley, located about 1 kilometer west 
of Stela 10,’ although no further reference to it is found in any of the Pea- 
body Museum publications. It was “rediscovered” by Spinden in 1914 
and the following analysis of the inscription is based upon the writer’s study 
of the original in 1915. 
Stela 19 is now broken in two pieces which lie on an artificially leveled 
hill in a little valley just west of Hacienda Grande, and 5.5 kilometers west 
of the Main Structure. There seems to have been quite a large settlement 
here. Mounds, small plazas, and remains of stone walls fill the valley, 

1Glyphs 38, 39, and 41, Maudslay’s numeration (1889-1902, vol. 1, pl. 111.) 
2See Gordon 1898), map facing p. 141. 
