368 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
FRAGMENT X’, 
Provenance: Original position unknown. Now in the Museum of the 
Normal School at Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 
Date: g.18.0.0.0 11 Ahau 18 Mac?(?). 
Text, drawing: figure SI, a. 
Fragment X’ is a small block of stone 28 cm. high and 20 cm. wide, now 
in the Museum of the Normal School at Tegucigalpa. Its provenance is 
unknown, except that it came from Copan. 
The single glyph-block preserved very 
clearly records “18 katuns”’ (see fig. 51, a). O 
Unfortunately nothing remains, either of the 
glyph preceding it or of that following it, so O 
that it is impossible to tell whether this frag- O 
ment was formerly part of an Initial Series 
-or a Secondary Series. If, for example, the 
next glyph to the right was formerly the uinal- oe 
sign and coefficient, then this fragment was chim Hawai * iti 
in all probability part of an Initial Series, 
possibly recording the same date as Altar W, 9.18.0.0.0 11 Ahau 18 Mac. 
On the other hand, if the next glyph to the right was the cycle-sign and 
coefficient, 7.e., an ascending series from left to right, then this fragment 
was part of a Secondary Series, and the corresponding date to which it 
reached may have been anything. The style of the tun element is late, and 
it is not improbable that the reading suggested may be correct. 
From its nature Fragment X’ would appear to have been part of some 
mosaic panel like those in the doorways of Temple 11, or possibly part of a 
hieroglyphic step. If the latter, it almost certainly may be assigned to the 
Hieroglyphic Stairway of Mound 26, in which case it was not part of an 
Initial Series, but of a Secondary Series.? 
The average height of the steps in the Hieroglyphic Stairway is 30.5 cm. 
as compared with 28 cm. for Fragment X’, not a great difference. On the 
other hand, this fragment looks more like a piece of a mosaic panel than 
anything else, and it may possibly have come from some glyph-panel like 
those in the doorways of Temple 11, in which event the reading suggested 
would not be improbable. 

There remain a few monuments which, for one reason or another, can 
not be assigned to their exact positions in the Long Count, though all doubt- 
less date from the Great Period. These are: Temple 18, Stela 11, Altars 
F’, G’, N’, 0’, T’, and U’, Shrine:R’,°and HKragment’ 775 [iiree eee 
Altar O’, and Temple 18, are either in or near the Eastern Court of the 

1 For other monuments recording this same hotun-ending, see Appendix VIII. 
2 This is so because the Hieroglyphic Stairway was dedicated in 9.16.5.0.0, or at least 35 years earlier than 
Katun 18, and a later Initial Series than the dedicatory date never appears. 
