386 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
AI-B2 Initial Series introducing glyph 
A3 9 cycles 
B3 17 katuns 
A4 1o tuns 
B4 7 uinals 
AS o kins 
Bs g Ahau 
Bg [3 Tzec] 
Although the month-sign itself is effaced, the presence of the glyphs of 
the Supplementary Series in a6-a9, the last, Glyph A, appearing in ag, 
renders it practically certain that 3 Tzec was recorded in B9.1 Continuing 
the inspection of this text, there are no decipherable glyphs on the left side 
facing the stela (fig. 62, c), although cs may be the moon-sign with a coeffi- 
cient of 2, which the writer has shown elsewhere may stand for 40 days.? 
The first three glyph-blocks on the right side, pi—p3, figure 62, a, are 
- effaced; the fourth, p4, looks like Imix with a Ben-Ik superfix, and the fifth, 
ps, is half of the Venus-sign. In ps is the day-sign Ahau inverted, and in 
pil Imix again with the Ben-Ik superfix. The last four glyphs, p12—-p15, 
are exceedingly important, since they record a Secondary Series of 7 uinals 
in p12, which if counted backward from the Initial Series will reach the date 
12 Ahau 8 Pax in p14, p15, a hotun-ending, and therefore, in all probability, 
the contemporaneous date of this stela: 
AI-Bs5, Ag _—«—<.17.10..7.0 g Ahau 3 Tzec 
Di2 7-0 backward 
D14, Dis g.17.10.0.0 12 Ahau 8 Pax 
The decipherment of this text has already been given in connection with 
the discussion of Altar W’ (p. 333), where other examples of this overlapping 
of the current hotun-ending by a few uinals, always less than 18, are given. 
It was shown there, and may be repeated here, that such overlapping prob- 
ably in no way interfered with the character of such monuments as hotun- 
markers, and Stela 1 at Los Higos therefore may be accepted as dating from 
9.17.10.0.0, being about 2 years earlier than the last group of stele in the 
Great Plaza at Copan, C, H, F, and 4, and of exactly the same date as Zo6- 
morph B at Quirigua. 
The relief on this monument is beautifully executed, particularly the 
glyphs, which show a delicacy of treatment and a refinement of detail 
scarcely surpassed by the best work at Copan, with which its date of 9.17.10.0.0, 
that is at the height of the Great Period agrees appropriately.’ 
1 Attention should be called to the unusual form of Glyph X at a8, in this Supplementary Series. This variant 
is only known in three other texts in the Corpus Inscriptionum Mayarum, namely, Stela 20 here at Copan (9.1. 10.0.0) 
(?); the tablet in the Temple of the Cross at Palenque (9.13.0.0.0(?)); and Stela E at Quirigua (9.17.0.0.0), the 
last only 10 years earlier than the contemporaneous date of this stela. 
2 That is, 2 X 20. See Morley, 1916, pp. 384-386. 
3 The writer was enabled to relocate this site, which was discovered by Squier between 60 and 70 years ago and 
subsequently forgotten, by a fortunate co.ncidence which brought together in Guatemala City, in May 1917, 
Professor Marshall Saville, Mr. S. K. Lothrop, and Mr. Basil Booth. Information then received from these three 
gentlemen enabled him to find this site a few weeks later. 
