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Bar Pendant Engraved with Glyphs and Figure
Not on view
This necklace’s long, rectangular bead is one of the largest recovered from the Sacred Cenote. One side features a portrait of a Maya ruler wearing a horizontal bar pendant with dangling cylindrical and round beads, perhaps the very pendant on which he is depicted. The incised glyphic text records three dates from the late seventh century, during the reign of K’inich Kan Bahlam II, son of Pakal the Great and ruler of Palenque. Kan Bahlam may have worn this bar pendant before it was offered to the cenote.
Esta es una de las cuentas más grandes halladas en el Cenote Sagrado. Uno de sus lados retrata a un gobernante maya con un pendiente horizontal en forma de barra con cuentas cilíndricas y circulares suspendidas, quizás el pendiente mismo en el que está representado. El texto con incisiones de glifos marca tres fechas de finales del siglo VII, durante el reino de K’inich Kan Bahlam II, hijo de Pakal y soberano de Palenque. Kan Bahlam podría haber llevado puesto él mismo este pendiente de barra antes de ser eventualmente ofrecido al Cenote.
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