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Lady Xoc is best known for adorning Structure 23 in Yaxchilan with 3 lintels (Lintel 24, Lintel 25, and Lintel 26) that depict her performing rituals. Royal Maya women are often depicted via texts and iconography like lintels. However, other women of Maya culture are not depicted in this manner.
Lintel 24 was found in its original context alongside Lintels 25 and 26 in Structure 23 of Yaxchilan. Alfred Maudslay had the lintel cut from the ceiling of a side entrance in 1882 and shipped to Great Britain where it remains today in the British Museum of London. Lintel 25 made the journey in 1883. Lintel 26 was discovered in 1897 by Teobert ...
Lintel 25 at Yaxchilan, now in the British Museum. [51] Lintel 26 was the third in the series set above the doorways of Structure 23, it is now in the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. [50] It dates to 726 and bears a portrait of Itzamnaaj B'alam II. [20] Lintel 29 is set into Structure 10 in the Central Acropolis. [31]
Lintel 24, Structure 23, Yaxchilan, as drawn by Désiré Charnay. The sculpture depicts a sacred bloodletting ritual which occurred 28 October 709. Yaxchilan ruler Shield Jaguar is shown holding a torch, while his wife Lady Xoc draws a rope through her pierced tongue. (109.7 x 77.3 cm)
El Chicozapote lintel 1 has a carved image of a ruler vassal of the king of Yaxchilan Yaxun B'alam IV under the title of sajal (a title given to a ruler subordinate to a larger capital), sitting on a mythological concept known as Witz (mountain) with the figure of a skull. [3]
Lintel 24 (26 Oct 709) Lintel 23 (3 Aug 723) Lintel 26 (726) Lintel 14 (29 Jun 741) Temple 23; Lintel 25; Stelae 5, 11, 18 and 35; Ruled for 60 years. He was often referred to in hieroglyphic texts as Master of Aj Nik, referring to the capture of his first captive before he became king, this phrase being attached to his name on 32 separate ...
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Lintels, spanning doorways or jambs. Particularly Yaxchilan is renowned for its long series of lintels in deep relief, some of the most famous of which show meetings with ancestors or, perhaps, local deities. [18] Panels and tablets, set in the walls and piers of buildings and the sides of platforms.