148 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
of the main figure on a stela yet reported at Copan. The back and sides 
are inscribed with glyphs. On the basis of this arrangement of the design, 
Stela 23 may be assigned to Class 4. 





iy 
Yj 
“tH, YUU HOY 
YY YH 
OVZZP 
YACTZZ MA; 
( 
va 
Yi 
Ue 
Y 
Yj 








bea 
f 

paar 


Fic. 26.—Inscription on Stela 23: a, c, sides; b, back. 
The inscription (see figure 26, b) opens on the back with an Initial Series 
introducing glyph, p1—E2, the variable central element of which is the kin- 
sign ina shield. It is almost identical with the corresponding element in the 
Initial Series introducing glyph on the back of Stela 16. Compare figure 
26, b, with plate 10, b, and also with Date 28 of the Hieroglyphic Stairway. 
The cycle-glyph and coefficient, p3, figure 26, ), are almost entirely effaced, 
and the katun-sign and coefficient, £3, partially so. Fortunately, enough of 
the latter remains to show that it is 10, the two bars appearing very clearly. 
The tuns, uinals, kins, and day, D4, E4, ps, and Es respectively, are on 
the missing second fragment, as are also the first two glyphs of the Supple- 

