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It has even been speculated that Aj Ne' Yohl Mat received short shrift on Pakal's sarcophagus because his reign, marked as it was by the devastating Kan attack, was something of an embarrassment to subsequent generations at Palenque. But this historial innuendo has now been silenced by a discovery made by Nikolai Grube in the museum at Balancan in the state of Tabasco.
The photographs above show five glyphs of Santa Elena Monument 1. Located on the Río San Pedro, Santa Elena has been identified by David Stuart as the home of the "Wa-bird" emblem glyph known from the inscriptions of Palenque, Piedras Negras and Site Q (Simon Martin 2003; citing David Stuart, personal communication 2000). The incomplete text of Monument 1 from Santa Elena records the accession a local ruler, whose name glyphs appear above (click on the thumbnails to view larger versions; more photographs will appear in the upcoming Mesoweb PARI Photo Database). The first glyph on the left is the "flat-hand" accession expression reading u-k'ahlaj huun tub'aah. (Under different lighting, the collocation on the left side of the glyph appears to be AJ, but Simon Martin [personal communication 2003] has examined the monument in the museum and in the photographs and determined that it is the ergative U.) The glyph on the right is the "Wa-bird" emblem glyph of Santa Elena. |