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This passage from the lid of Pakal's sarcophagus relates the death of Aj Ne' Yohl Mat on 2 Kimi (A) 14 Mol (B) (9.8.19.4.6, August 11, 612). The verb for death is at C: OCH-b'i, och b'i[h], "he entered the road." He had ruled for less than seven years. There is no portrait of Aj Ne' Yohl Mat on the side of Pakal's sarchophagus, as there is for Pakal's other predecessors going back to Ahkal Mo' Nahb' I. But as we have noted, Ahkal Mo' Nahb' II is not depicted either. And as we shall see in our consideration of the next Palenque ruler, it is possible that this ruler is omitted as well. In the cases of Ahkal Mo' Nahb' II and Aj Ne' Yohl Mat, it has been suggested that they are not depicted because they did not leave heirs in the direct line of dynastic descent.

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Note: In an unpublished commentary on the newer texts at Palenque, Linda Schele (1997) observed that the death date of Aj Ne' Yohl Mat in the sarcophagus inscription is recorded out of sequence with that of Janaab' Pakal. This historical individual — not to be confused with K'inich Janaab' Pakal the Great — is portrayed on one of the sides of the sarcophagus, while Aj Ne' Yohl Mat is not. Schele and Peter Mathews accounted for this anomaly by asserting that the portraits on the sides of the sarcophagus are those of direct ancestors, while the sarcophagus lid records the deaths of both kings and members of the immediate family of Pakal the Great. Schele (1997) adds:

Furthermore, whenever two of these rulers were born close enough together to be considered brothers, only one of the pair was represented on the sarcophagus sides. This pattern led us to identify Ah Nenol-Mat and Hanab-Pakal as older brother-younger brother. In our interpretation Hanab-Pakal died before he could take the throne, but he was the father of the next king — Lady Sak-K'uk, and grandfather of Hanab-Pakal, the Great.