| "K'an Joy Chitam's face has the heavy, squarish look of stockily built person (Greene Robertson 1983)." Comparing this portrait with that of Ahkal Mo' Nahb', for instance, does suggest that the artist has portrayed a particular physical type, perhaps even a particular individual. As K'an Joy Chitam died in the year 565 and Pakal's Sarcophagus was not carved until sometime around his death in 683, it might seem unlikely that anyone remembered what he looked like. But we have a portrait of the earlier ruler, Casper, on a travertine vase, and it is not unlikely that there were portraits of other rulers on paper or ceramics. |
