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The first glyph group on the slab records '13 Pop', followed by 'birth', and then by a bird head and the glyph group pa-ca-l(a) . The bird head is very similar to the bird head at B3 of the Tablet of the 96 Glyphs, which has infixed as its eye the shield glyph T624a. Berlin believes (1970a: 140) that the shield-eyed bird is a reference to Lord Shield Pacal. The bird head in the 'Pasadena Tracing' has several elements of the shield glyph around its eye: we strongly suspect that were the slab ever refound, the shield infix could be seen there. The bird head glyph group, the pa-ca-la group, and the '13 Pop' point strongly to the identification of this slab as a fragmentary record of the birth of Lord Shield Pacal on 9.8.9.13.0 8 Ahau 13 Pop.
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