Ci le: Ee THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
A more serious problem, however, is that raised by the apparent occur- 
rence of a Supplementary Series here without a corresponding Initial Series, 
which, if true, would constitute a unique example of its kind in the Maya 
inscriptions. So far as the writer knows, there is no instance on record 
where a Supplementary Series stands by itself without a corresponding 
Initial Series’. Indeed, rather than consider this text an exception to so 
universal a rule, it seems more probable that the Initial Series which went 
with this Supplementary Series was originally presented in the upper halves 
of columns c and u, which have disappeared. This would then be like the 
panel on the opposite jamb of this same doorway, where the Initial Series 
has also disappeared, save for a small part of the kin-sign. If H4, 47 does 
record an Initial Series terminal date, and if the corresponding Initial 
Series number formerly preceded H4 in columns Gc and 4, as the writer be- 
lieves, three more glyph-blocks are necessary above G4 and H4 in each column 
to have recorded the Initial Series introducing-glyph and the cycles, katuns, 
tuns, uinals, and kins of the Initial Series numbers. ‘This would have added 
another half meter to the height of the glyph-panel, making it originally be- 
tween 1.33 and 1.5 meters high. 
There are no other decipherable glyphs in this panel. The lower edge is 
again 15 cm. above the floor of the vestibule.’ 
The south doorway, as already noted, is almost entirely destroyed, very 
little of its two panels being recoverable. Standing at the back of the 
temple, and facing the doorway, the inscription begins with the panel on the 
observer’s left, that is, the one on the west jamb, which reads from left to 
right and top to bottom in pairs of columns, after the regular Maya order. 
(See plate 29, a.) Unfortunately, only the lower right-hand corner of this 
panel is preserved, and of the few glyphs left, only the last three, p7-ps, 
are recognizable. They record a Secondary Series composed of Io tuns 
(cs) (note the late form of the tun-sign), 5 uinals, and 3 kins (p7) and a glyph 
(ps) which usually closes Secondary Series. Unfortunately this number, 
though perfectly clear in itself, can not be connected with any date. 
Turning to the remaining panel, that on the east jamb (plate 29, b), 
this doubtless is to be read from the outside toward the inside, that is, from 
right to left and top to bottom in pairs of columns, like the panel on the 
west jamb of the north doorway. (Note the coefficient 9, on the right of 
Gs in the next to last column, counting from right to left, and the reversed 
elements of the last glyph, Hs, apparently the sign for Ceh.) Besides the 
latter the only other decipherable glyph is the day 3 Cib in u7. 
The inscription presented on these four panels raises several interesting 
points. First, as to the order of reading, we have seen that the priests had 
to depart from the regular left-to-right order in two of the panels, so that in 


1 Morley, 1916, p. 368. 
2 The writer regards it as particularly fortunate that he was able to recover the six pieces of the mosaic form- 
ing glyphs H4 and Gq and the upper halves of 45 and Gs, which had fallen from the wall to the floor, and to restore 
them to their original positions, thus giving the day of the hotun-ending recorded here. 
