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The third occurrence of 6 Etz'nab 11 Yax is on the Palace Tablet (figure 8) at J9-I10, but there is no Lord Shield Pacal explicitly mentioned. However, we think that at J13 there is the head variant (T1010.184.74) for the 'Lord Prefix' (T74.184), followed by a quincunx compound (T181.23.585H). The quincunx compound is commonly associated with Palenque rulers, though less frequently with Lord Shield Pacal than with others. We suspect that these two glyph groups must have contained for the ancient Maya some implicit reference to Lord Shield Pacal.

Drawing by Merle Greene Robertson from The Sculpture of Palenque , Vol. III.

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