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The fourth reference to the birth of Lord Shield Pacal is on a fragmentary text which we present here for the first time (figure 4) with the kind permission of Ian Graham of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University. This piece was exhibited at the Pasadena, California Art Museum in 1966 at which time a tracing was made of the slab and sent to Mr. Graham. The slab has since disappeared. The stone almost certainly comes from Palenque and is obviously a fragment of a larger tablet.

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