146 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
Unfortunately the rest of the text is missing. The writer believes, 
however, that it was probably continued from this date 4 Ahau 8 Chen by 
a Secondary Series composed of 3.0 to 9.11.0.0.0 12 Ahau 8 Ceh, which would 
bring the text forward to the nearest hotun-ending. 
A parallel case would be that of Stela E and its altar, already presented, 
although in this case the hotun-ending date is preserved and the date from 
which the count starts is effaced. On the altar of Stela 19 the positions are 
just reversed, the starting-date being preserved and the hotun-ending miss- 
ing. Another parallel will be found in the case of Stela I and its altar. (See 
pp. 179, 182.) 
We have, then, on Stela 19, the record of a date 9.10.19.15.0, which was 
3.0 (60 days) before the end of the current hotun, 9.11.0.0.0, and 2.0 (40 
days) after the Initial Series of Stela 10, 2. ¢., 9.10.19.13.0. And on the 
associated altar we have the same date as the Initial Series terminal date on 
the stela. This latter date, the writer believes, was brought forward to 
9:11.0.0.0 by glyphs on the pieces now missing. 
A summary of the combined texts follows: 
Stela 1g A1-B7,C1 9.10.19.15.0 4 Ahau 8 (Chen) 
Altar Br, Cr g.10.19.15.0 4 Ahau8 Chen 
3.0 missing 
(9.11. 0. 0.0 12 Ahau 8 Ceh) missing 
There are 17+10+20+10=57 glyph-blocks on the stela and 13 on the 
altar, making a total of 70 for the entire text. The Initial Series introducing 
glyph occupies the space of 4 glyph-blocks. 
In addition to the round altar just described, Stela 19 seems to have 
had another of very unusual shape. (See figures 24 and 25,d.) This is also 
round, but has four deep grooves cut in the periphery 90° apart. There is a 
depression in the top, perhaps for holding offerings. It is plain and stands 
about 30 cm. high, being about a meter in diameter. It was found southwest 
of the inscribed altar. 
The inscription on Stela 19 has one other unique feature, namely, that 
each of the period-glyph coefficients occupies a glyph-block by itself. Note 
also the filling element at the right of each except the cycle coefficient, 2. ¢., 
A4, AS, A6, and a7, plate 16, which look like ending prefixes. 
STRELA 23) 
Provenance: Original position unknown. Found bui t into the walls 
of the cabildo at Santa Rita, about 12 kilometers up 
the valley from the Main Structure, at Group 1. (See 
plate 3.) 
Date: g.11.0.0.0 12 Ahau 8 Ceh.! 
Text, drawing: figure 26. 
References: Mauds'ay, 1889-1902, vol. 1 of text, p. 16. 
Morley, 19164, p 338. 

1For other monuments recording this same hotun-ending, see Appendix VIII. 
