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THESITE R
PANELSIn the Spring of 1990, Linda Schele distributed a letter describing a number of unprovienced Maya panels that she called the Site R panels. Although the panels are from more than one location, she followed Peter Mathews’ “Site Q” with the next letter of the alphabet.
I did not make the original photographs, but copied the images that were lent to me by the then owner. I accepted them with the proviso that the images could be distributed freely.
On the following pages are the Site R Panels.Justin Kerr
A FAMSI Research Project
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In a letter dated June 1, 1990, Nikolai Grube writes in part,”...on a new reading for the T516 verb. This verb is clesrly associated with the representation of dancing, so I think it reads ak’ot/ak’otah which is the Cholan word for “to dance”. (Bird Jaguar of Yaxchilan is in dancing position [left figure]).“he is dancing with the snake” or “he dances the snake” K4614A
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K4614BNikolai Grube suggested the word k’oh “mask” should appear in
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