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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  6107 Description:  Stela 26 showing warrior carrying shield and staff while captive cowers at his feet. Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Notes:  Possibly 9.9.11.12.3 Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Warfare See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  6108 Description:  Stela 8 showing ruler 3 holding shield and staff and wearing large balloon headdress decorated with tlaloc and mexican year sign. two small captives cower at the ruler's feet. Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Notes:  Final date = 9.14.14.9.19 Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Warfare Publications:  L. Schele and D. Freidel, A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya 1990:148, Fig. 4:17 See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  6109 Description:  Stela 7 showing ruler 3 holding staff and shield while small captive kneels at his feet. Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Notes:  Closing date = 9.15.0.0.0 Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Warfare See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  6110 Description:  Stela 35 showing ruler 2? holding staff and shield while small captive kneels at his feet. Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Notes:  Date = 9.11.10.0.0 Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Warfare See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  6111 Description:  Stela 11, dedicated on august 22, ad 731, shows accession of ruler 4. the ruler sits atop a scaffold framed by a skyband and topped by a celestial bird. a dead sacrificial victim lays across an altar at the bottom register. Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Cave; Sacrifice; Celestial Bird Publications:  L. Schele and M. Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art 1986:112, Fig. II.4 See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  7621 Description:  Stela 12, september 15 ad 795, ruler sitting atop a flight of stairs receives two war captains, who present him with a pile of captives. eight captives are tied together on the lower register, and many show signs of having been tortured. ruler wears what could be a shrunken human body or possibly an olmec heirloom. Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Prisoners, Spears, Warfare Publications:  L. Schele and M. Miller, The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art 1986:219, Fig. V.8 L. Schele And D. Freidel, A Forest Of Kings: The Untold Story Of The Ancient Maya 1990:382, Fig. 10:2 See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  La Mar Schele Number:  7624 Description:  La mar stela 3. text starts with 5 tun-ending 4 ajaw 8 kej or 9.18.5.0.0, september 13, 795. the dn -3.9.2 back to 3 etz'nab 6 sotz 9.18.1.8.18, march 30 792 when a victim is captured. another dn to another record of capture, victim possibly from pomona. Current Location:  Los Angeles County Museum Of Art Hieroglyph:  Yes  Architectural Feature:  Stela Chronological Era:  Late Classic Notes:  Drawing by john montgomery, corrections by linda schele Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Captive Publications:  Texas Notes on Precolombian At, Writing, and Culture - #70 "Notes on the Chronology of Piedras Negras Stela 12", Schele and Grube 1994. See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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Site:  Piedras Negras Schele Number:  7625 Description:  Lintel 3 depicts a palace scene where a celebration of heir-designation is taking place. ruler 4 celebrates thes end of his first twenty tuns as king, witnessed by jaguar of yaxchilan, most likely bird-jaguar. Hieroglyph:  Yes  Architectural Feature:  Lintel Chronological Era:  Late Classic Notes:  Panel commissioned on july 31, 749 (9.15.18.3.13) Culture:  Maya Iconographic Features:  Hier, Cahalob, Attendants Publications:  L. Schele and D. Freidel, A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya 1990:304, Fig. 7:21 See Also:  Schele Photos for "Piedras Negras"

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