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Lintel 10 is the last known monument at Yaxchilan, dating to 808. [12] It depicts K'inich Yat Ahk II of Piedras Negras as a captive of Yaxchilan king K'inich Tatbu Skull IV. [61] Lintel 12 was originally set into Structure 20 in the Central Acropolis. [46] It is now in the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. [46]
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]
Itzamnaaj Bahlam IV (2 July 741 AD to 808?) was a Maya ajaw (king) of the city of Yaxchilan.He was the son of Yaxun Bahlam IV and Lady Chak Joloom. [1] While Iztamnaaj may have been his name, some epigraphers argue for Kokaaj as the reading; [1] he is also sometimes called Shield Jaguar because of the appearance of the glyphs in his name. [2]
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.
Lintel 25 also is reported to have inscriptions on it that indicates that the lintel is placed above the house of Lady Xoc. The phrase is translated by Inomata and Houston as: “Lady Xoc's house is the heart/center of Tan-Haʼ Yaxchilan” (p. 107). Lintel 26 shows Shield Jaguar as he prepares for battle.
Lintel 24 is the designation given by modern archaeologists to an ancient Maya limestone sculpture from Yaxchilan, in modern Chiapas, Mexico. The lintel dates to about 723–726 AD, placing it within the Maya Late Classic period . [ 1 ]
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The earliest carved lintels were created in 723 CE. At the Yaxchilan archaeological site there are fifty-eight lintels with decorative pieces spanning the doorways of major structures. Among the finest Mayan carving to be excavated are three temple door lintels that feature narrative scenes of a queen celebrating the king's anointing by a god. [6]