Itzamnaaj Bahlam III
Maya · mortal · classic · mortal
Sixty-one years on the throne, and what everyone knows about him is a lintel in which he holds a torch while his wife pulls a rope of thorns through her tongue. That is not an accident of survival: Yaxchilán's kings put their women on the monuments to a degree no other Maya city did, and Structure 23 is Lady K'abal Xook's building. The registry held neither of them, and the Yaxchilán lintels are among the three or four most reproduced things in Maya art.
Children
Domains
- kingship
- bloodletting
Relations
- spouse: Lady K'abal Xook
- father of: Yaxun B'alam IV
Sources
- Reference treatments of Itzamnaaj Bahlam III, the Yaxchilán lintels and the succession.