384 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
that it is possible to decipher several of the above glyphs, owing to the loss 
of the first two glyph-blocks, a and B, this inscription can not be dated other 
than as falling in the Great Period. 
Altar 2 is slightly smaller than 
Altar 1 and is again approximately 
square, being 67 cm. long, 63 cm. wide, 
and 35 cm. high. Only half of it was 
found, and only one of the two faces on 
this piece is sufficiently preserved to 
make out the inscription (fig. 60). The 
first sign, A, is Ahau, but without any 
coefficient, the two remaining glyphs being undecipherable. The carving is 
of the same character as that on Altar 1, and this altar also may safely be 
referred to the Great Period on stylistic grounds. 

Fic. 60.—Part of inscription on Altar 2 at Rio 
Amarillo. 
LEGEND 
GW STELAE 
@ ROUND ALTARS ' 
@ SCULPTURE 











STELA 1 


Mi We 
Vy Ni, 
Sue Vy 4, 
- 
YW, 
Gi) A Ni My 
aN VARS \ U7 VY, 


Fic. 61.—Plan of the ruins of Los Higos. 
STELA I AT Los Hicos. 
Provenance: On the west side of the Chamelecon River, 80 kilometers 
northeast of Copan and 30 kilometers northeast of 
La Florida. (See figs. 57 and 61). 
Date: 9.17.10.0.0 12 Ahau 8 Pax.! 
Text, drawing: figure 62. 
References: Morley, 1917c, pp. 288, 289. 
Morley, 1918a, p. 276, note. 
Squier, 1883, pp. 468-480. 
+ For other monuments recording this same hotun-ending, see Appendix VIII. 
