374 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
7.13.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop 
0. S.ie, 2 Chuena hop 
3. 3.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop 
5.16.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop 
I1.18.11.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop 
14.11. 6.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop 
74 TT oe Chuen ar op 
.19.16.14.11 2 Chuen 4 Pop 
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The style of Altar F’ clearly places it in the Great Period, where this 
date could have occurred but twice. Of these two readings, 9.17.4.1.11 would 
seem to be the better, because 9.19.16.14.11 is too late to be historically 
probable, although nothing positive can be urged in favor of the former. 
Gordon, in a long discussion of this inscription,! reaches the conclusion 
that Altar F’ dates from 9.0.15.10.11 3 Chuen 4 Pop. This reading, however, 
is open to two vital objections: the day recorded is almost certainly 2 Chuen, 
not 3 Chuen, and the style of this altar is certainly late, and not early. He 
points out further that the 9 knotted hands may have some reference to the 
current cycle, 7.e., 9, which appears probable. 
ALTaR G’, 
Provenance: In the field south of the Main Structure. (See plate 3.) 
Date: 9.15.4.17.1 4 Imix 9 Mol (?). 
Text, (a) photograph: plate 24, d. 
(b) drawing: figure 54. 
Altar G’ lies in an open field, about half a kilometer south by southwest 
of the Main Structure. (See plate 3.) It is a small circular stone 46 cm. 
high, 71 cm. tn diameter at the top, and 63 cm. in diameter at the bottom. 
It rests on four, short, round, fluted legs and has a band of 8 glyph-blocks 
encircling it near the bottom. (See plate 24, d, and fig. 54.) 

Fic. 54.—Part of inscription on Altar G’, 
Fortunately the date, so far as it goes, is very clear. This is the Calendar 
Round date 4 Imix g Mol, there being a line in the bar of the month coeffi- 
cient. This date occurred but twice in the Great Period, as follows: 9.15.4.17.1 
4 Imix 9 Mol and 9.17.17.12.1 4 Imix 9 Mol. Of these the first seems to be 

1 Gordon, 19024, pp. 134-129. 
