176 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
within 19 days, as 9.9.10.10.?.. Furthermore, since the kin coefficient is 
usually o, we may probably decipher this Initial Series further as 9.9.10.10.0 
7 Ahau 13 Zac, with 19 days as the maximum error possible. 
This date is neither a hotun-ending nor even a tun-ending, however, 
and for that reason, if for no other, it is hardly to be considered as the con- 
temporaneous date of the altar. Continuing the inspection of our text, the 
remains of a Secondary Series are clearly to be distinguished in Gbu. The 
uinal-sign shows very clearly in Ha and part of a tun or katun sign in Hb. 
Unfortunately the coefficients are destroyed. In1is a Calendar Round date, 
>? ? ? Yaxkin, the second doubtful element probably being the day- 
sign Ahau. Finally, in J is recorded very clearly and unmistakably ‘The 
End of Katun 12.”” The ending-sign 1s the familiar hand, with the tassel-like 
postfix and subfix with curl infix, and the Katun 12 itself has the familiar 
ending superfix or prefix. 
By referring to Goodman’s tables, it will be found that Katun 12 of 
Cycle 9 ended on the date 10 Ahau 8 Yaxkin, viz, 9.12.0.0.0 ro Ahau 8 
Yaxkin, which agrees exactly with the month-sign recorded in 10, as far as 
it is preserved; and in spite of the fact that both of the coefficients are 
missing, we are doubtless justified in restoring them as Io and 8 respec- 
tively, and in assigning this altar to the katun-ending 9.12.0.0.0. 
It seems probable that there was but one Secondary Series on this 
altar, because a Supplementary Series of the usual length, 7. ¢., 7 or 8 glyphs, 
would fill most, if not all, of & and F, and there would have been room for 
no more glyphs between F and cd, which begins the Secondary Series noted 
above, 7. ¢., GbH. Therefore, if the coefficients of this Secondary Series had 
been preserved, we could probably have obtained the exact value of the 
Initial Series terminal date by subtraction. As it is, we may possibly fill 
in these missing coefficients as follows: 2.9.8.0, viz: 
9. 9.10100. <7 Ahane 4, Zac ty) 
2 Mie # Fat fe 
g.12. 0.0.0 12 Ahau 8 Yaxkin 
The last glyph-block, x, is undecipherable, although kal. h. is the head 
of God C, which also appears on the altar of Stela | at Hb. (See plate 22, c.) 
A summary of this text follows: 
A-Da_ 9g. 9.10.10.0 7 Ahau 13 Zac (?) 
? 
Gbu 2L9NB.0 
I g.12. 0. 0.0 10 Ahau 8 Yaxkin 
J End of Katun 12 
We have seen that the East Altar of Stela 5 and Stela 1 both record the 
same hotun-ending, namely, 9.11.15.0.0, and therefore originally may have 
been associated with each other. Furthermore, we have seen that the date 
of the West Altar of Stela 5 is the same as the date of this altar, namely, 
9.12.0.0.0. It therefore seems not improbable that these last two altars 
also may have been formerly associated with some stela which was erected 
to commemorate this hotun-ending. It must be admitted, however, that 
such a stela has yet to be found. 
