Link to enlarge Masculine head from Palenque Chiapas from photo by Michel Zabé WHO'S WHO IN THE CLASSIC MAYA WORLD
Peter Mathews
K'an Joy Chitam I    An early king of Palenque (born AD 490, ruled AD 529-565)PAL 005
Portraits


PAL:Temple of the Inscriptions,
Sarcophagus, West Side, Figure 3
Drawing by Merle Greene Robertson
(Green Robertson 1983: Figure 201)
K'an Joy Chitam I is portrayed on the West Side of the Sarcophagus in the tomb below the Temple of the Inscriptions. This is an ancestral portrait, commissioned by K'inich Janab' Pakal I and executed over 100 years after K'an Joy Chitam I's death.



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