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Peter Mathews
Kan B'alam I    An early king of Palenque (born AD 524, ruled AD 572-583)PAL 007

Also Known As
Personaje E2Berlin 1959
Topic 9Berlin 1965; Kelley 1976
BahlumLounsbury 1974; Greene Robertson et al. 1976
JaguarBerlin 1977
Jaguar-serpienteBerlin 1977
Chan-Bahlum ISchele 1978, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1986a, 1987; Greene Robertson 1983; Kelley 1985; Schele and Freidel 1990
Kan-Bahlam IMathews 1991
Chan Bahlum IBassie-Sweet 1991, 1996
Kan-Balam Ide la Garza, 1992; Schele and Mathews 1993, 1998
Kan Balam IDrew 1999; Bernal 2000
Kan B'ahlam IGrube, Martin, and Zender 2002; Guenter 2003

Other Names and Titles
Only two titles are known for Kan B'alam I in the references to him. The Palenque emblem glyph follows his name in Texts 4, 8, 9, and 10. In Text 10, which accompanies a Kan B'alam portrait carved almost exactly 100 years after his death, his name is prefixed by the K'inich title. It is not clear if this title was recorded in error (it would not be used with another Palenque ruler until K'inich Janab' Pakal I, some 50 years later) or if it was a title used by Kan B'alam in his own lifetime. It might have been inserted in Text 10 retrospectively under the influence of his namesake K'inich Kan B'alam II, who probably oversaw the finishing of the tomb below the Temple of the Inscriptions, and who invariably had the K'inich title as a prefix to his royal name.



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