372 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
the front or north gallery at B is 7?, the glyph to which the 7 is attached 
being a grotesque head, probably the same as that on Altars T’ and U’. 
(Compare plate 24, a, with figure 55.) It has a long, upturned nose, filed front 
tooth, and fleshless lower jaw. ‘The two first characteristics clearly recall 
God B, the ‘‘Long-nose”’ God, and it is not improbable that this deity may 
be represented here. The upper part of the head is the day-sign Imix. (See 
plate 24,a.) At C, figure 53, is the same glyph with the same coefficient, 
except that here this head is turned to the right, so that it would face the 
doorway. 
At E, at the opposite end of the back wall of the north gallery, there is 
this same head, but with a coefficient of 8, and just around the corner, in the 
western gallery at F, ? Ahau. In order to have a symmetrical presentation 
it is necessary to presuppose another head like B, C, and E at D, with a 
- coefficient of 8, viz: 
A 6 Ahau D8 God B(?) 
B  7GodB E 8 God B 
GC) 7.God 5 F  ? Ahau 
Two dates have been suggested for Temple 18, neither of which may be 
correct. The first, 9.16.14.16.0 6 Ahau 3 Cumhu, is the same as the best 
reading of the starting-point of the count on the step in Temple 21a, 100 
meters to the north on the opposite side of the same court (see plate 6), which 
itself is a very doubtful reading. The proximity of these two temples, 
coupled with the fact that both clearly record the same day, 6 Ahau, may 
indicate that these two dates are the same. 
Altar R was found just in front of this temple, and its contemporaneous 
date, as we have seen, is probably 9.16.12.5.17, less than 3 years earlier than 
the date suggested above for Temple 18. 
Another possibility is that this 6 Ahau may be 9.17.5.0.0 6 Ahau 13 
Kayab, and that Temple 18 dates from the same hotun as Altar Q in the 
Western Court and Stela 11, which was found nearby. ‘The inscription is so 
fragmentary that it is impossible to proceed farther with its decipherment, 
other than to affirm that it undoubtedly dates from the latter part of the 
Great Period. Originally the inscription would appear to have been more 
extensive, as a block was found in one of the galleries showing parts of several 
bar-and-dot coefficients. 
ALTAR F’, 
Provenance: Found in the débris on the southern side of Mound 32 
at the Main Structure. Nowatthe Peabody Museum. 
(See plate 6.) 
Date: g.17.4.1.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop (??). 
Text, (a) photograph: plate 24, e. 
(b) drawing: | Gordon, 1902, figure 26. 
Gordon, 19024, figures 9 and Io. 
References: Gordon, 1902, figured, but no reference in text. 
Gordon, 1902a, pp. 134-139. 
