A modern plaster cast of the bottom section of the east side on Stela F. There are 18 glyphs in this section of cast with some of these, close to the base - due to the original’s damage, are illegible. This section of cast continues with reference to ‘the stone’, meaning the stela itself, being erected by K’Ahk’Tiliw Chan Yopaat. This is followed by a long distance number, suggesting deep historical time, and mythological entities. This is followed by the first bundling of time, a concept that is not currently well understood. The glyphs move on to reference to a primordial water. A beheading event follows with the name of the sun god given in relation to the stela. It states that this is done under the auspices of [broken].
Original: Classic Maya, c. AD 250-900.
(Accession No 1885.3.5 B) 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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