This three-quarter view of the back of Stela H shows the refinement Copan sculpture attained. It is also an example of the mastery its artists had for integrating iconography and textual information so that they became impossible to separate. The feathers of Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil's elaborate backrack, spilling from the front and around the sides of the monument (see photo #16), frame the representation of a sacrificial plate at the back, followed by a brief text that relates a little-understood event and the erection of the monument itself. |