Stela A stands at a short distance from Structure 4. Its handsome greenish stone depicts yet again Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, by far the most active raiser of lakamtunoob (stelae) in Copan history. Though the head-on, standing pose holding a zoomorph ceremonial bar in folded arms would appear to be a monotonous repetition of other monuments, the monuments' iconography varies importantly. This would communicate to the knowledgeable viewer what the ceremony celebrated by any given stela was about, and/or what deity's role the king was assuming on the occasion. It has been suggested that the king was assuming here the guise of Kan Te Ajaw, one of the patron deities of Copan, but the particularly obscure text of this stela does not help in confirming this.