344 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
seven of the eight monuments come together for the first and only time, four, 
as we have seen, ending and two beginning on this date, and one, Temple 11, 
even having this date recorded twice. 
Stela 8 and Altar Q have the current katun-ending 9.17.0.0.0, and Altar Q 
also has the next hotun-ending, 9.17.5.0.0, closing with a date 64 days later. 













Altar U. Altar Q. Altar R. Altar V. | Temple 11.| Altar T. Stela 8. | Fragment E’. 
9-14.15.0. O 
9.14.19. 5. 0 
Gels. 10.6000 
O15. Olay 
omits, mys ©. 
QO. Usen7 eos 
9-15. 8.10.12 
Qulig.1O.gOste2 
O15. 9-10.17 
Oss Oul3 40 
| 9-15 5. 0 
9.15 a 7 
9.1 G17 
9.16) 5533-50 
9.16.12. 5.17 | 9.16.12. 5.17 |9.16.12. 5.17] 9.16.12.5.17|9.16.12. 5.17|9.16.12. 5.17 | 9-16.12.5.17 
6.177.079 (twice) 9.17. 0.0. 0 
9-17.25. OO 
9.17. 5. 3. 4 
0.17.12.) 8.17 | 9.17.12. 6.17) (On 7m aeene 
CQ.17- 120502 
10: 0: 0.¢.-¢ 
(prophetic) 







The three remaining monuments of the group, Altar T, Stela 8, and 
Fragment FE’, continue for a little more than 7 years to the date 9.17.12.5.17, 
the first katun anniversary of 9.16.12.5.17. Altar T, and probably Frag- 
ment E’ as well, end on this date, and Stela 8 closes only 5 days later, 
9.17.12.6.2, with which latter monument there comes to an end one of the 
most important group of dates in the Corpus Inscriptionum Mayarum. 
Indeed, the only comparable series is that presented by the “12 Caban 5 
Kayab” group at the neighboring city of Quirigua. In the latter group the 
corresponding position of the Calendar Round date in the Long Count is fixed 
by two different Initial Series as having been 9.14.13.4.17; and, as the writer 
has suggested elsewhere,! the glyph which always follows this date in the 
Quirigua text may perhaps set forth the nature of the corresponding event. 
In figure 49 the eight occurrences of 6 Caban 10 Mol at Copan are shown. 
It is interesting to note in this connection that this date is only 17 uinals 
(340 days) earlier than the second katun anniversary of Quirigua’s most im- 
portant date, 7.¢., 9.14.13.4.17 12 Caban 5 Kayab: 
9.16.12. 5.17. 6 Caban 10 Mol 
17. 0 (340 days) 
9.16.13. 4.17. 8 Caban 5 Yaxkin 


1 Morley, 1915, pp. 221, 222. 
