| The passage above comes from a recently restored Palenque monument known as the K'an Tok Tablet. (K'an Tok is not to be confused with Toktan.) Discovered in fragments on a mound associated with Temple XVI, it was assembled in its proper chronological order by Guillermo Bernal Romero (2002). It narrates the accession, supervised by Palenque rulers, of a series of secondary lords. Bernal associates these subsidiary officials with a separate site in the Palenque sphere called K'an Tok, but David Stuart finds it more probable that they resided in Palenque proper (Stuart 2000:note 4; available online). The passage above records that on 9.0.9.5.9 3 Muluk 17 Muwahn, one of these K'an Tok officials acceded under the auspices of the Palenque king identified as K'UH(UL) to-ko-TAN-'AJAW, "Divine Cloud Center Lord." Because of the date, this was clearly Casper. |