Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . r to analyze the contents of this inscription until others of asimilar character which occur at Quirigua can be offered for comparison, but the fact COPAN. 47 that something approaching an initial series occurs also in this form will doubtlessprove of great assistance to anyone attempting the interpretation of the round disc in No. 12 is owing to a hard nodule occurring in the stone, whichwas not susceptible of sculpture with the tools the artist had at his c
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . r to analyze the contents of this inscription until others of asimilar character which occur at Quirigua can be offered for comparison, but the fact COPAN. 47 that something approaching an initial series occurs also in this form will doubtlessprove of great assistance to anyone attempting the interpretation of the round disc in No. 12 is owing to a hard nodule occurring in the stone, whichwas not susceptible of sculpture with the tools the artist had at his command. A similarnodule has been met with between Nos. 4 and 5, which has been entirely removed, andthe carving continued over the concave surface of the stone. A similar nodule hasdoubtless been extracted from the west side of the monument, just below the lowerserpents head. In front of this monument is a monolithic altar shown in Plate XLII. The south side (a) facing the plaza appears to represent a deaths head. On theside facing the monument is (b) a huge grotesque head of a more usual type without alower
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