The slender Stela E stands atop the low platform known as Structure I. Though there is good evidence that this structure, Late Classic in date, was the place where the monument stood at the time of the city's abandonment, the text on the stela and its style mark it as a much earlier object. The lack of the customary dedicatory cache also supports the idea that the monument was moved from its (unknown) original location and re-erected on Structure I. Notice how the monument is worked in relief, rather than in the three-dimensional style that Copan sculpture attained in later years.