Sihyaj Chan K'awiil II

Stela 31 is the single most informative Maya monument about the fifth century, and it is his. It shows him flanked by two figures in Teotihuacan war costume, both of them his father, and its text runs the dynastic line back through the entrada and out the other side — the document in which a house installed by outsiders argues that it is the old house after all. He put it inside a building and it survived because of that.

Parentage

• parent: Yax Nuun Ahiin I

Domains

• kingship

Sources

• Sihyaj Chan K'awiil II is the ajaw of Tikal from 26 November 411 to his death on 3 February 456, son of Yax Nuun Ahiin I and Lady K'inich, husband of Lady Ahiin, whose Stela 31 records his grandfather's death in 439 and whose funerary pyramid is Temple 33.: Reference treatments of Sihyaj Chan K'awiil II, Stela 31 and Temple 33. (secondary)