336 _.. THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
is the last monument on which it occurs, and, in the opinion of Spinden, was 
sculptured by the same hand as Altar Q and the step in Temple 11. In- 
cluding the glyphs on which the figures are seated, there are about 30 on the 
monument. | 
The panel of 8 glyphs on the front or north side has no calendric signs, 
so far as known. 3 is the sign for God C, and a4 the familiar Zotz head 
with the Ben-Ik superfix. The same applies to the few legible signs on the 
top, as well as those on the sides upon which the figures are seated. Indeed, 
the only calendric glyphs on Altar T, at least now recognizable as such, are 
two dates on the back or south side. It will be seen in figure 47 that each 
of the two seated figures holds a glyph in its extended hand, that held by 
the figure on the left being “10 Mol” and that by the figure on the right “to 
Zip.”’ In other words, we have here two month-signs with their correspond- 
ing coefficients, but at first sight no corresponding day-signs and coefficients 
appear. The question at once arises, where are the days corresponding 
to these month-signs? 
We know, to begin with, that they must be either Manik, Ik, Eb, or 
Caban, since both the month coefficients are 10. This question puzzled the 
writer for several years, in fact, until he discovered that the heads of the 
two figures holding the month-signs are themselves the missing day-signs, 
both being Caban. An examination of these two heads in figure 47 will 
show that they are in reality nothing more than the sign for Caban with 
its usual outline changed to form the profile of a grotesque head, the curl 
@ element being utilized for the eye, and the hook @ element for the ear. 
{~ With this point once established, it was natural to look for the missing 
day-sigp coefficients in the corresponding head-dress in each case. In the 
first, figuPesite -head-dress is partially effaced, but in the original the remains 
of: ax anid?abave it a central numerical dot with an ornamental crescent 
on its right AppRag,very clearly, and this coefficient therefore is 6 @Y¥223V@, 
which makes the first head record the date 6 Caban 10 Mol. The < 
coefficient in the head-dress of the second figure is surely 4, and thise 
date is therefore 4 Caban 10 Zip. But it has been suggested that the Initial 
Series corresponding to6 Caban 10 Mol was9.16.12.5.17. “The next step, there- 
fore, is to find out what was the nearest occurrence of 4 Caban Io Zip in the 
Long Count to this date. Referring to Goodman’s tables, it will be found 
that the nearest occurrence of 4 Caban Io Zip to 9.16.12.5.17 6 Caban 10 
Mol was in 9.17.12.5.17 4 Caban 10 Zip, exactly 1 katun later, that is, the 
second date was the first katun anniversary of the first. 


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9.16.12. 5.17. 6 Caban 10 Mol 
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9.17.12. 5.17. 4 Caban io Zip 
This coincidence is so striking that it may be regarded as validating 
both these readings. The head of the first figure, together with the glyph 
in its hand (and note in figure 47 that both are in the same horizontal line), 
