Posted in Palenque on April 23, 2007 | No Comments »
Here’s a drawing of an inscribed tablet fragment from Miraflores, an important subsidiary center of Palenque. It will appear in my upcoming Palenque book to be publsihed in 2007 or 2008 by Thames and Hudson.
This and a few other carved panel fragments were seen by Heinrich Berlin, who published photos in his Ethnos article [...]
Posted in Palenque on April 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The sole surviving portion of the stucco decoration on the Temple of the Skull (Temple XII) at Palenque is — no surprise — a skull. Visitors to the ruins might notice it just as they enter the ruins, looking up at the temple’s one remaining pier. The skull was clearly part of a [...]
Posted in Palenque on April 16, 2007 | No Comments »
In his 1831 visit to Palenque, explorer Juan Galindo removed four stucco glyphs from the Temple of the Inscriptions, most likely from one of its inscribed outer piers (Piers A or F). Drawings of the glyphs - truly excellent for the time — were published in Galindo’s report of 1834, and Heinrich Berlin reproduced these [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2007 | 11 Comments »
We all know the ceiba tree so naturalistically represented on vase K1226, but there are a few things to say about the facial motif and other elements shown on the tree’s trunk. What follows is probably obvious to many, but it will hopefully correct a few misconceptions that reappear from time to time in writings [...]
Posted in Palenque on April 13, 2007 | No Comments »
Once when perusing the early Palenque history recorded in the east tablet of the Temple of the Inscriptions, I noticed an fascinating pattern in the accession records of the eight rulers recorded up to and including K’inich Janab Pakal. The verb is always “seating” but the prepositional phrase that follows, specifying the office or [...]
