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Glyph J10

it had flown away   --  Schele, 1988

he died   --  Robertson, 1985


Photo: Mark Van Stone   zoom
Drawing: Merle Greene Robertson
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Robert Wald (1999) has read this glyph as k'a-yi-ya / k'ahi(y) / "it ended". This refers to the death of K'inich Janahb' Pakal (Pacal the Great)