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Object Number
2001.1.448
Display Title
Cast of Stela 8, lower section, (now restored)
Descriptions
Object Description
Cast of Stela 8 (says "Stela.V. side 1").
Copan, Stela 8
Maya, A.D. 783
Copan, Honduras
The original stone was destroyed in 1912, leaving this precious cast and one of the other side (not displayed) as the only physical record of the monument. The twenty glyphs record the inauguration of the sixteenth Copan king Yax Pasaj Chan Yopat in A.D. 763, and commemorate the king's ritual conjuring of an ancestral spirit twenty years later. Near the end of the inscription we read that the Copan ruler is the son of a royal woman from distant Palenque-a key piece of Maya history recorded only on this monument.
[D. Stuart, 2001]
Inventory Description
Cast, low relief, glyphs, white, rectangular
Cast Name
CPN_St_8
Classification
- Cast
Department
Archaeological
Date
A.D. 783
Culture
- Maya
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Central America
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Honduras
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Copan
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Copan
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Copan
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Burlap, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 143 x 78 x 4.5 cm (56 5/16 x 30 11/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Overall, Weight: 57605.18 g (57.605 kg)
Quantity
1
Label on object
2001.1.448
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