158 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
here is 9.0.0.0.0 (8 Ahau 13 Ceh). The remaining glyphs on this side are of 
unknown meaning. 
The inscription on the opposite side (plate 19, a) opens with an Initial 
Series introducing glyph in Bi, the variable element of which, as already 
noted, has a rectangular hole passing through its upper part and out on top 
of the monument. 
The cycle coefficient in B2a u. h. and the katun-sign and coefficient in B2b 
are entirely effaced. ‘The former was doubtless 9. Passing over the latter 
for the present, it will be found that o tuns are recorded in B3a, the tun 
coefficient again having the fleshless lower jaw, usually 10, but on this stela 
always o.! 
The uinal-sign and coefficient in B3) are entirely effaced. The kin-sign 
and coefficient in B4a are clear; the latter is surely 0, the clasped hand being 
used to denote o instead of the fleshless lower jaw, as elsewhere on this 
monument. 
The next glyph, which ordinarily would be the day-sign of the Initial 
Series terminal date, is entirely effaced. Passing over B5, we reach in Boa, 
Glyphs B and A, the next to last and last glyphs of the Supplementary 
Series respectively. The latter, as already explained in connection with 
Stela 13, is very unusual in having a grotesque head, probably that of God 
D, in place of the dot element in the oval in the upper part of the glyph. 
(See pp. 152, 153.) Following this in Bod is the day 12 Ahau, the day-sign 
being the familiar grotesque head variant;? and in Bsa u. h., the month 8 Ceh, 
and in Bsa |. h., Katun 11. The Initial Series recorded upon this monu- 
ment, therefore, is 9.11.0.0.0 12 Ahau 8 Ceh, and we may fill in the missing 
katun coefficient as 11 and the missing uinal coefficient as 0, and finally 
accept as proven that the fleshless lower jaw in the tun coefficient in this 
Initial Series and in the katun, tun, and kin coefficients of the Initial Series 
on the other side of this monument stands for o. 
In B7b u. h. is very clearly recorded 13 uinals, or exactly 1 tonalamatl, 
260 days. Record of tonalamatls, although very common in the codices, 
is almost unknown in the inscriptions, the present case being one of the very 
few cases known. ‘The end of a tun is probably recorded in the next to last 
glyph-block on this side, Bsd 1. h. 
There are no other decipherable glyphs on this side of the monument. 
A summary of the inscription follows. 
1 When the writer examined Stela 3 in April 1915, he was unable to find the fragment which presented the 
cycle-sign and the tun coefficient, 7. ¢., Aza |. h. and aja u. h. respectively. A protracted search of the 
immediate vicinity of the mor.ument failed te disclose the whereabouts of this piece and he was obliged to leave 
the site without drawing these two glyphs. On his return to this country, however, during a visit to the Peabody 
Museum, he found this missing fragment miscatalogued under the name of “a piece of Stela 4.”’ It had been 
brought from the ruins to Cambridge by the Second Peabody Museum Expedition in 1893; and when its two glyphs 
were drawn to scale, they were found to fit exactly in the position shown in plate 19, a, and their fortunate recovery 
materially aided in the final decipherment of the date cf this monument. 
2 See Bowditch, 1910, plate 6, Nos. 35-38; and Morley, 1915, p. 41 and figure 16, 7’ and h’. Also compare 
Appendix X. 
