Another angle of the western face of Stela C. A change in the color of the stone in the monument's bottom left marks an ancient breakage line. This monument was found shattered and lying in pieces on the plaza floor, as shown in an 1840s dramatic engraving by Frederick Catherwood and in Alfred Maudslay's photographs of Copan at the end of the nineteenth century. There is abundant evidence of physical violence done to these monuments in ancient times, which some scholars have taken to signal a violent end to the city. Though this cannot be ruled out, it is a fairly common practice throughout Mesoamerica, where monuments and buildings were considered to be living beings, to have power objects terminated, either as a hostile act by foes or as a needed ritual practice before the renewal of structures and of public art.