574 THE INSCRIPTIONS AT COPAN. 
3 Ahau 18 Kayab. This is so because the only other three Katuns 3 Ahau in the 
ukahlay katunob subsequent to the discovery of Chichen Itza (10.2.0.0.0 3 Ahau 
3 Ceh, 610 A. D., 10.15.0.0.0 3 Ahau 18 Pop, 866 A. D., and 11.8.0.0.0 3 Ahau 18 
Chen, 1122 A. D.) are too early to be probable on historic grounds, as indicated by 
the following evidence. The aélatl, which the deity or ruler in figure 86 holds 1n his 
left hand, is a Nahuatl weapon, and the Nahuatl influence did not become strong 
in Yucatan until after 11.12.0.0.0 8 Ahau 3 Mol (1201 A. p.), when, owing to the 
victory of Hunnac Ceel, the halach vinic of Mayapan, over the Itza in that katun, 
Chichen Itza seems to have been turned over to the Nahua troops, who had aided 
Hunnac Ceel in its conquest. The last Katun 3 Ahau before the Spanish Conquest 
i.e., that ending in 1379, therefore 1s probably the one intended here. 

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Fic. 88.— Parts of inscription on back Fic. 89.— Design and part of inscription on front of Stela 
of Stela 1 at Tuluum, Yucatan. at Ichmul, Yucatan (top only recovered). 
A third example of doubtful date is Stela 1 at Ichmul (see fig. 89). This is 
only the upper part of the monument, the lower part having disappeared. It is 
now built into the wall of a house on the Hacienda of Ichmul, some 40 kilometers 
east of north from Chichen Itza. Two human figures hold in their right and left 
arms respectively a large central glyph-block, which records the day 6 or 7 Ahau, 
probably the latter. Across the top of the monument runs a row of glyph-blocks, 
of which originally there would seem to have been 24. (The left side of the stela 
is missing, see fig. 89.) 
Unfortunately, owing to the uncertainty as to whether the day 6 Ahau, or as 
the writer is inclined to believe, 7 Ahau, is recorded here, it 1s impossible to date 
this monument exactly. The following readings are the best possibilities, however: 
11.13.0.0.0 6 Ahau 3 Zip (1221), 11.19.0.0.0 7 Ahau 13 Chen (1339), and 12.6.0.0.0 
6 Ahau 3 Zac (1477), with the second, 11.19.0.0.0, as the best of all. 
Another New Empire katun-marker is Stela 9 at Mayapan, the former capital 
of the Cocom, and during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries the leading 
city in Yucatan. This monument (see fig. 90, a) was undoubtedly one of those 
described by Landa as having been discovered by him “in the plaza of that city.’”! 
It was rediscovered by the Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg in 1866, three centuries 
later,? and was subsequently removed to the casa principal of the Hacienda of 
Xcanchakanon the lands of which the ruins of Mayapan lie, and there built into 
a wall in the corridor, where it is excellently preserved. 
Again we see two figures facing each other, the right-hand one apparently 
Itzamna, God D of the Schellhas classification, the day-sign 10 Ahau in front of a 
baton he holds in his right hand.* This is clearly to be interpreted as Katun 10 


1For this whole passage, see page 577. 2Brasseur de Bourbourg, 1867, pp. 246-249, and figure 4. 
8The details of this day-sign as well as those of the other glyphs on this stela were painted, not carved, and 
have consequently disappeared; the coefficient 10, however, is unusually clear. 
