INSCRIPTIONS OF THE GREAT PERIOD. 345 
We may never know the exact nature of the event which took place at 
Copan on 9.16.12.5.17 6 Caban 10 Mol—whether it is historical or astro- 
nomical—but its paramount importance can not be doubted any the less on 
that account, since it was either the starting-point or terminal date of so 
many important monuments.! 
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Fic. 49.—Occurrences of the date 9.16.12.5.17 6 Caban 10 Mol at Copan. 
Provenance: 
Date: 
Text, (a) photograph: 
(b) drawing: 
References: 

STELA’ GC: 
In the Great Plaza at the Main Structure just south of 
Stela D. (See plate 6.) 
9.17.12.0.0 4 Ahau 18 Muan (?). 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1, plates 39, b, 40. 
Gordon, 1896, figure 8. 
Catherwood, 1844, plate 4. 
Gordon, 1896, figure 4. 
Gordon, 1902), figures 20 and 21. 
Maudslay, ibid, plate 41. 
Stephens, 1841, vol. 1, plates opposite p. 155. 
Bowditch, 1910, pp. 134, 195, 196. 
Goodman, 1897, p. 130. 
Gordon, 1896, pp. 35, 36, 39. 
Gordon, 1902, pp. 169, 171, 185. 
Gordon, 1902), pp. 250-252. 
Maudslay, 1889-1902, vol. 1 of text, pp. 44, 45. 
Seler, 1902-1908, vol. 1, pp. 755, 756. 
Spinden, 1913, pp. 159, 165, and table 1. 
Stephens, 1841, vol. 1, p. 155. 
Thomas, 1900, pp. 776, 777, 801. 

1Gordon (19024, p. 138) gives the Initial Series corresponding to 6 Caban 10 Mol as 9.3.8.12.17. While it 
is true that one of the occurrences of 6 Caban 10 Mol was in 9.3.8.12.17, the style of the monuments upon which 
this date appears is so obviously that of the Great Period that Gordon’s Initial Series for this date may be rejected 
outright as a stylistic impossibility. 
