202 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
What this resemblance signifies is impossible to say. In the case of the 
fifth, tenth, and fifteenth tuns the following glyphs in each case declare that 
1,800-day periods had come to their ends. If the other groups are analogous, 
the cycle, oval, Imix, and grotesque-head elements after the first, sixth, 
eleventh, and sixteenth tuns may possibly declare that the first fifth of a 
hotun had come to an end in each case. Thus the special elements character- 
izing the glyphs after the second, seventh, and twelfth tuns may signify that 
the second fifth of a hotun had come to an end in each case, etc. 
Unfortunately, the last two glyph-blocks, cs and ps, are badly effaced, 
and it is impossible to tell whether or not they recorded “the end of 17 
tuns” and “‘the end of 18 tuns”’ respectively. 
It will be noticed, however, in this connection, that the tun-signs on the 
south side occupy less space than those on the north side; and that while the 
latter in every case extend the entire height of the glyph-blocks, the former 
in every case occupy only half the height of a glyph-block. Since the upper 
halves of cs and ps are entirely destroyed, it is impossible to tell whether the 
sixteenth and seventeenth tun-endings had been recorded here or not. 
There is nothing on the sides already presented, the north, west, or 
south, which definitely fixes the position of Stela J in the Long Count, 7. ¢., 
which indicates what hotun it was erected to commemorate. It is true the 
date 7 Ahau 3 Cumhu occurs prominently on the west side, but it is not 
accompanied by its corresponding Initial Series and it remains for the 
inscription on the east side to make this fact known. 
The sequence of the glyphs on the east side follows the diagonal turn- 
ings of a woven pattern back and forth. Maudslay, as already stated, has 
worked out the order of reading very carefully, and the notation followed 
here is that suggested by him.! 
Glyph o, near the upper right-hand corner, is the Initial Series intro- 
ducing glyph, and this is followed by the Initial Series 9.13.10.0.0 7 Ahau 
3 Cumhu in Glyphs 1 to 6, 12 u. h., as follows: 
Glyph o Initial Series introducing glyph 
9 cycles 
13 katuns 
Io tuns 
© uinals 
o kins 
(7 Ahau) effaced 
3 Cumhu 
Ll 
nb ANA PY 
_ 
This Initial Series is clear, with the exception of the day in Glyph 6, 
which is entirely destroyed, and the month coefficient in Glyph 12 u.h., 
which at first sight appears to be 8. Fortunately, this uncertainty in the 
terminal date is amply compensated for by the clearness of the Initial Series 
number, concerning which there is no doubt. By referring to Goodman’s 
tables, the terminal date corresponding to the Initial Series 9.13.10.0.0 will 
be found to be 7 Ahau 3 Cumhu. The day of this was doubtless recorded 

1 See Maudslay, 1889~1902, vol. 1, pl. 71. 
