Yaxun B'alam IV
Maya · mortal · classic · Recorded classification
Ten years elapsed between his father's death in 742 and his accession in 752, which is a gap nobody has fully explained and which his own monuments work hard to paper over — he commissioned an unusual quantity of sculpture insisting on his descent and on his mother's standing. A king who has to argue the case usually had one to answer.
Parentage
- parent: Itzamnaaj Bahlam III
Domains
- kingship
- architecture
Sources
- Yaxun B'alam IV, Bird Jaguar IV, is king of Yaxchilán from 3 May 752 to 768, son of Itzamnaaj Bahlam III, and with his father the builder of most of the surviving city.: Reference treatments of Bird Jaguar IV and of Yaxchilán in the eighth century. (secondary)