Link to enlarge Masculine head from Palenque Chiapas from photo by Michel Zabé WHO'S WHO IN THE CLASSIC MAYA WORLD
Peter Mathews
Janab' Pakal "the Elder"    A powerful Palenque lord and member of the royal family (died AD 612)PAL 021
Portraits


PAL:Temple of the Inscriptions
Sarcophagus, West Side, Figure 1.
Drawing by Merle Greene Robertson
(Greene Robertson 1983: Figure 195)
The sole surviving portrait of Janab' Pakal "the Elder" is on the Sarcophagus in the tomb beneath the Temple of the Inscriptions. His portrait is the first (left) figure on the west side of the sarcophagus.



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