350 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
His error seems to have arisen through mistaking one rather thick bar with 
interior decoration (== for three thin plain bars==. An examination 
of the original, however, established that the coefficient is clearly 5. 
The next glyph, B3a, is quite clearly 8 Cumhu, and B2d, B3a therefore 
record the Calendar Round date 5 Ahau 8 Cumhu.' Before attempting to 
fix the position of this date in the Long Count, let us examine the rest of the 
text. The next decipherable glyphs are B7a and B7b, which declare the 
Calendar Round date 4 Ahau, 3, 8, 13, or 18 Uo, the only uncertainty being 
in the month coefficient. Bowditch (1910, p. 196) suggests the coefficient 
may be 13, and Goodman (1897, p. 130) that it was 18. An examination of 
the original clearly established the presence of a fleshless lower jaw, thus 
reducing the possible readings to 13 and 18; #3 and since the head has a 
frontlet composed of but one element (the charac- eal teristic of the head for 8) 
this coefficient is in all probability 18. B7 would therefore seem to record 
the Calendar Round date 4 Ahau 18 Uo. Without attempting to fix this 
in the Long Count, let us examine the next date in our text, B11. 
This records the Calendar Round date 5 Ahau 3, 8, 13, or 18 Uo, again 
the only uncertainty being in the month coefficient. Goodman (1897, p. 
130) suggests it is 8. An examination of the original, however, clearly 
establishes the presence of a fleshless lower jaw, the two dots frequently 
seen in this element also appearing quite clearly here; and, since the 
upper part of the head has a frontlet composed of but one element, we are 
again justified in identifying this coefficient as 18. Indeed, the month 
coefficients in both of the last two dates described are practically identical. 
Bil therefore records the Calendar Round date 5 Ahau 18 Uo. 
Ssecond to last glyph is another Calendar Round date 4 Ahau 
The day coefficient is surely 4 and the day-sign, in all prob- 
ability, eo Ahau, although itis partially effaced. ‘The monthcoefficient 
is either 13 or 18, and the month-sign is effaced. The writer believes this 
last date is probably 4 Ahau 18 Muan, the same as the last date on Stela H. 
We have, then, on the north side, four Calendar Round dates, 5 Ahau 8 
Cumhu, 4 Ahau 18 Uo, 5 Ahau 18 Uo, and possibly 4 Ahau 18 Muan, but no 
record of the positions which they respectively occupied in the Long Count.? 
Since there is no long number present like 11.14.5.1.0 on the other side, it 
seems fairly safe to assume that these four dates occurred at or near the time 
the monument was erected, 7. ¢., during the latter part of the Great Period. 
~ Our first task, therefore, is to ascertain where they occurred during the 
Great Period, which will be found to have been as follows: 


9.17. 2. 0.0 5 Ahau 8 Cumhu 9.16.19. 2.0 5 Ahau 18 Uo 
9.19.14.13.0 5 Ahau 8 Cumhu 9.19.11.15.0 5 Ahau18 Uo 
9.17.11. 6.0. 4:Ahbaur8.Uo 9.17.12. 0.0 4 Ahau18 Muan 
10. 0. 4. 0.0 4 Ahau 18 Uo 10. 0. 4.13.0 4 Ahau18 Muan 
' Tn a letter to Bowditch (1910, p. 196) Maudslay suggests that B2d is probably 13 Ahau instead of 15 Ahau; 
having previously suggested the correct reading, 5 Ahau, in a letter to Goodman (Goodman, 1897, p. 130). 
> The statement of the current great-cycle as 11 in B2a does not help in any way, since all Maya dates occurred 
in this period. 
