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At any rate, 'death' is explicitly mentioned in this clause, at J10-I11 as T78?:575.125/1:179.503:82; this same phrase, with only minor variations, occurs three times at Yaxchilan immediately after the death date of Shield Jaguar (Proskouriakoff, 1963:163). The presence of the death compound, along with the correspondence of the date to the reference in the Temple of the Inscriptions, leaves us in no doubt that the death of Lord Shield Pacal is again recorded in this passage.

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

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