INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERIOD. 315 
entering the two exterior doorways the inscriptions on all four jambs could 
be read going in, 7. ¢., from front toward interior in each vestibule. Thus, in 
plate 29, the text begins with c in the front or north doorway, which is to be 
read from left to right and top to bottomin pairs of columns, the normal order; 
the next panel, d, is to be read from right to left and top to bottom in pairs 
of columns—an abnormal order; the next panel, a, is to be read like c again, 
and the last panel, J, like d, in short boustrophedon by panels, if we may 
borrow an analogy from Grecian epigraphy. 
Finally the record of the important date 6 Caban 10 Mol, twice in this 
temple, both times in conspicuous positions, and once probably with its 
corresponding Initial Series, coupled with the fact that no later dates have 
been found, would seem to indicate that this was the dedicatory date of 
Temple 11. If this latter is true, it is, moreover, the first time we have 
encountered this date with its accompanying Initial Series, unhappily now 
effaced, or indeed with any other date, the position of which is fixed in the 
Long Court, namely, 9.14.15.0.0 11 Ahau 18 Zac. The next occurrence of 
6 Caban 10 Mol before 9.14.15.0.0 was at 9.13.19.10.17, and the next after 
at 9.16.12.5.17.. [he former is 15 years before 9.14.15.0.0 and the latter 
37 years after. In spite of the fact that the earlier reading is the nearer here, 
as will be shown later, the latter is probably the Initial Series value originally 
intended. A summary of the text follows: 
North Doorway, east jamb Bé6, B7 9.16.12.5.17 6 Caban to Mol 
North Doorway, west jamb, H4, H7,G8  9.14.15.0.0 11 Ahau 18 Zac 
End of a hotun. 
Step in north gallery leading into the 
sanctuary, first two glyphs (9.16.12.5.17) | 6Caban 10 Mol 
The first four monuments of this group, Altars V, R, U, and Temple 11, as 
we have just seen, were probably dedicated on this important date 6 Caban 
10 Mol, that is, 6 Caban 10 Mol was their contemporaneous date. ‘This is 
not true of the remaining monuments of the group, however, as already 
explained (pp. 295, 296), and these will be described in their proper places in 
the chronologic sequence. 
We have reached now the very zenith of architectural achievement at 
Copan. During the eight closing years of this katun, 9.16.12.5.17 t09.17.0.0.0, 
the Eastern and Western Courts at the Acropolis were completed in 
their final forms, and during this brief period all the temples surrounding the 
Eastern Court, Nos. 18, 19,20, 21, and 21a,were probably erected, as well as 
the handsome reviewing-stand in the Western Court (see plate 30). In- 
deed, the closing date of this period, 9.17.0.0.0, is recorded not only on two of 
these constructions, Temple 21a and the reviewing-stand, but also on two 
independent monuments, Altars Z and G;, the latter showing a recrudes- 
cence of sculptural activity in the Great Plaza for the first time in 23 years. 
From this period also probably dates Temple 22, the most magnificent build- 
ing at Copan, if indeed not in the entire Maya area, and during the follow- 
ing decade the crest of the sculptural wave was reached in Stele Gra Higaly, 
