Alfonso Morales and Julia Miller have sent recent observations of the Palenque Temple XXI find to a long list of glyphers and friends. He titled his email "Latest report on Chocolates". That's his "technical" term for something like this, when you find the "goodies". His message is below - click MORE.
Joel Skidmore at Mesoweb has much more on the find as he continues to update his report.
Mesoweb Reports - New discovery in Palenque
Meanwhile, I've made it down to San Cristobal, Chiapas, and I'm starting to relax. This town has more "cibercafes" than anywhere else I've ever been. I'm sitting in a place called "Virtual Planet" with my iBook plugged into their system, a good trick in a country that is almost exclusively PC-oriented. The connection is nice and fast. I guess all that fibre we saw being laid along the Pan Am highway last year is paying off.
Glyphers:
Last Friday we had a visit to Arnoldo’s restoration
shop with a good friend Claudia Madrazo, we were shown
some of the fragments of the new throne, less
fragments were visible than on Monday. Claudia asked
if David Stuart had this new inscriptions, Juan
Antonio Ferrer told me yes, Arnoldo had given
instructions to e-mail them to the glyphers, I told
him that nothing has been sent from INAH, Gillermo
Bernal said he will send them in 8 days with his
informe, let me know if you get anything, my feeling
is that Gillermo is the one that has been blocking the
information. The left side with the inscriptions was
been glued in a sand box, it was strange because last
time I look at it was in good condition, so the
question is does it have a new break or was a way of
keeping it away from our eyes, I will compare the
firsts pictures with its new condition. I went back
next day and the stone that was not displayed on
Friday with the name of the Lady Telaraña- Propela was
back in the table.
On Friday, the top of the throne was out of sight, it
was been kept on a back bench with a white paper and a
plastic on top with the inscriptions facing the wall
of boxes, away from us. I asked Juan Antonio if we
could take a look at it he said no problem, so he took
the covers off and put some light on it. The whole
edge of the stone is carved with inscriptions. Almost
to the end of the inscriptions we found the DN
1.04.16.16. When that is added to the beginning long
count date we will end with this:
Initial date: 9.13.17.09.00 3 Ahaw 3 Yaxk’in
Like T. XIX Stucco (8th Katun)
DN 1.04.16.16
Date A in Lakamha’ 9.15.02.07.16 9 Cib
19 K’ayab (I have not seen this)
Guessed DN 2.08.01
Date B in Lakamha’ 9.15.04.15.17 5 Kaban 5
Yaxk’in (I have not seen this)
Righ side DN 2.03
Date C in Lakamha’ 9.15.05.00.00 10 Ahaw 8
Ch’en
Minus right side DN 2.10.01.07.03
Date D in Lakamha’ 7.05.03.10.17 10 Kab’an 5
Muwaan (sic.)
I hope this helps some and I will insist that you guys
get the images so you can share them with the other
guys.
I have a dumb question; do we have any hard evidence
that Pakal II (aka U Pakal K’inich) is the son of AKMN
III?
Alonso Mendez made the observation that new throne has
Pakal II with a feather cape can it be a relation to
the bird name glyph?
Or my other question is can the bird name be related
of the use of the Bird backrack of T.XIX Stucco?
Saludos
Alfonso y Julia
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