144 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
extending both north and south of the particular plaza where this stela was 
found for perhaps half a kilometer. 
The stela itself and the associated altars were found about the middle 
of the group in the largest plaza (see figure 24), and here doubtless was the 
center of the community. With the 
exception of Stele 13 and 23, to be 
presented next, Stela 19 is the most 
distant of all the monuments from the 
Main Structure. 
The inscription is presented on 
all four sides, and on the basis of this 
arrangement it may be assigned to 
Class 3. Only one side has an Initial} 
Series, the introducing glyph of which * °, 
(ai—B2) is of extraordinary form. (See * 1; 
plate 16.) The trinal superfix and sub- 
fix are both present, as well as the vari- 
able central element, which is appar- 
ently a human figure. The “tun” 
sign and comb-like lateral appendages, 
however, are almost entirely obscured 
by two twining serpents, whose gro- 
tesque heads with widely extended 
jaws occupy the greater part of the 
glyph-block. This latter feature, so 
far as the writer knows, is unique 
in the whole Corpus Inscriptionum 
Mayarum. | 
The cycle-sign and coefficient ap- eae 
pear in aA3,B3. The latter is clearly 9, 16. 24——Map of central mound of Groupsias 
there being one large double-outlined, ecce pre tia me 
cross-hatched dot on the lower part of 
the face. The katun coefficient (a4) is 10, the death’s head being perfectly 
clear. 
The tun coefficient (As) is very clearly 19, and the uinal coefficient (46), 
15. The line of fracture runs through the kin coefficient (a7), which is 
partially effaced. ‘The lower part of this head, however, shows the fleshless 
lower jaw, which would ordinarily indicate the number to. 
The day-sign of the Initial Series terminal date should be recorded at 
As, but even in spite of the effaced condition of this glyph it is clear that it 
never was a day-sign. Following through the remaining glyphs on the front, 
the last, aio, is Glyph B of the Supplementary Series. 
Glyph A of the Supplementary Series (c1) is found on the top of one of 
the sides and is shown in figure 25, a, cl, and immediately following this is 
the day of the Initial Series terminal date (c2) 4 Ahau. Since the day-sign 

