EditorialThe Yaxchilan Lintels. Lintel 15. Structure 21. Carved limestone lintel with glyphs and a scene representing Lady Wak Tuun, during a bloodletting rite. She is carrying a basket with the paraphernalia used for auto-sacrifice: stingray spine, a rope and ...
EditorialThe Yaxchilan lintels. Lintel 24. Classica Maya. 723-726. Mexico, Chiapas, Yaxhilan.Detail of Lady K'ab'al Xook. Limestone. The British Museum. London. United Kingdom.
EditorialLintel 24, one of three panels from structure 23 at Yaxchilan, Mexico. It represents a bloodletting ritual performed by the king of Yaxchilan, Shield Jaguar II, and his wife, Lady K'ab'al Xook. The Maya king holds a flaming torch over his wife, who i...
EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...