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Platform Panel of Temple XXI

Maya

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This panel carved in low relief was originally the front of a platform. The Maya ruler K’inich Janaab Pakal I, depicted posthumously at the center of the composition, impersonates Palenque’s mythological dynastic founders. Enthroned on a jaguar-pelt backrest, he hands a stingray-spine bloodletter to K’inich Ahkal Mo’ Naab III, his grandson and the patron of the panel. K’inich Janaab Pakal II, brother of Ahkal Mo’ Naab, is to the right of Pakal. The panel records the first bloodletting ceremony, a rite of passage, performed by Ahkal Mo’ Naab, which may have taken place in the late 670s or early 680s, when he was a child.



Este tablero esculpido en bajo relieve era originalmente el frente de una plataforma. El gobernante Maya K’inich Janaab Pakal I, representado póstumamente en el centro de la composición, imita a los fundadores dinásticos mitológicos de Palenque. Pakal, entronizado en un respaldo de piel de jaguar, le ofrece una espina de mantarraya a su nieto K’inich Ahkal Mo’ Naab III, patrono del tablero. K’inich Janaab Pakal II, hermano de Ahkal Mo’ Naab, se encuentra a la derecha de Pakal. El tablero relata la primera ceremonia de rito sacrificial llevada a cabo por Ahkal Mo’ Naab hacia el final de la década de 670 o principios de la década de 680, cuando era un niño.

Platform Panel of Temple XXI, Stone, pigment, Maya

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