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WHO'S WHO IN THE CLASSIC MAYA WORLD Peter Mathews |
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| PAL:Temple of the Inscriptions, Sarcophagus, East Side, Figur Drawing by Merle Greene Robertson (Green Robertson 1983: Figure 191) | ||
| The most famous portrait of Kan B'alam I is on the East Side of the Sarcophagus in the tomb below the Temple of Inscriptions at Palenque. In this retrospective portrait, Kan B'alam I has as part of his headdress a jaguar head with snake eyes: in other words, he wears his name in his headdress. An almost identical jaguar headdress can be found in Pier E of the Temple of the Inscriptions, and Linda Schele and I have argued that this pier also contained a portrait of Kan B'alam I, even though his face no longer survives. | ||
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