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This is the passage from the East Panel of the Temple of the Inscriptions. Because it parallels the information for other rulers, we can reconstruct the meaning of the eroded glyphs. At H5-H6 is a Distance Number of 19 days, 12 months, and 1 tuun (or 360-day year). This counts forward from the accession of Ahkal Mo' Nahb' II to the period ending of 9.6.13.0.0 9 Ajaw 18 Muwahn. G6 is transcribed CHUM-[mu]-wa-ni-ya. (The mu is in brackets because it is infixed within the sign for CHUM.) This is transliterated chumwani(y) and translated "he was seated" (Wald 1999). H6 is ta-HUUN-na, ta huun, "with the headband". Together G6 and H6 are another way of expressing accession. At G7 is the ch'ok ("youth") or pre-accession name of Ahkal Mo' Nahb' that we saw from the Temple of the Cross inscription. It is quite noteworthy that his rulership name is absent in this context. Instead we have the 'u-mam, "grandfather/grandson" epression at H7. The name of the grandfather, Ahkal Mo' Nahb' I, is implicit. G8 shows a "flat hand" like that which we have seen in the k'al sak huun expression for accession. Here it is holding a Kawak sign with a ni suffix, which converts the Kawak sign from syllabic ku into the word tuun, "year". This is a common expression for period-ending celebrations. Despite the erosion, we know that this is the reading because of the context, since H9 refers to 13 tuuns. And the Calendar Round 9 Ajaw 13 Muwahn (H8-G9) fits with the thirteenth tuun seating 9.6.13.0.0. Thirteen was a sacred number to the Maya, so they celebrated the seating of the thirteenth tuun as well as more obvious (to us) intervals like the tenth (half-way through the k'atun). This particular period ending was chosen for the inscription regarding Ahkal Mo' Nahb' because he did not live to the k'atun seating of 9.7.0.0.0. |