A modern plaster cast of lintel 43 from House L. The image depicts Bird Jaguar holding a basket-staff with a K’awil figure on top, and Lady Bahlam is offering a bowl with a rope and paper after blood-letting. The inscription beings with a date, ? Kimi, 14 Mak. The inscription is eroded but refers to dancing, and to the woven basket-staff depicted in the image. The name ‘Yaxun Bahlam (Bird Jaguar), the captor of Aj Uk, he of 20 captives, ?the 3 k’atun lord, god-king of Yaxchilan’ is then given, followed by ‘Lady Mut Bahlam, the Lady from Hix Witz, Lady Bah Kab’.
Original: Classic Maya, c. AD 250-900.
(Accession No 1885.3.16) Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Cambridge, CC BY NC.
3D model created by Textdatenbank und Wörterbuch des Klassischen Maya, www.mayawoerterbuch.de.
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