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MORE LIMESTONE TABLET FRAGMENTS

More fragments of limestone relief carving were found just outside the west wall of Temple XIX at the very end of the season. All of these pieces belong to the fragmented tablet found earlier inside the building.

The fragment in the top picture on the right depicts the lower portion of the body of the subsidiary lord who supports the hand of the ruler in that other sculpture. And the hieroglyphic caption identifies the ruler himself: K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb' III.

An important passage of hieroglyphic text was found with the new fragments. Project epigrapher David Stuart comments on the inscription: "The nice new glyphs contain a reference to the death of K'inich Ahkal Mo' Nahb's father ('Long Lips'), also recorded in the stucco inscription of Temple XVIII. This helps to clear up some of the jumbled dates of that text, linking the '6 Muwan' to the death event itself."