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According to Guatemalan epigrapher Federico Fahsen, the monument, known as Stela 40, was most likely carved by the same sculptor responsible for the well-known Stela 31 depicting Sian Ka'an.
New Stela at Tikal 1997
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The figures represented on the so-called Stela of the Vultures, one of the earliest examples of Chaldean art, are without beards, and on the early seal-cylinders the gods alone, as a rule, are permitted to wear them.
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We have evidence of earlier hieroglyphic writing in ancient Mexico from the Oaxaca area and an Epi-Olmec text on Stela 1 from La Mojarra in southern Veracruz, but nothing to compare with the texts from such sites as Tikal, Palenque, Copán, and the like.
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Stela 5 at Uaxactún shows Smoking-Frog as victor but in a Tlaloc-Venus costume, indicating a new type of warfare, borrowed partially from Teotihuacán.
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Stela 31 at Tikal is the most extensive record found so far at that site.
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Stela 5 at Uaxactún shows Smoking-Frog as victor but in a Tlaloc-Venus costume, indicating a new type of warfare, borrowed partially from Teotihuacán.
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We have evidence of earlier hieroglyphic writing in ancient Mexico from the Oaxaca area and an Epi-Olmec text on Stela 1 from La Mojarra in southern Veracruz, but nothing to compare with the texts from such sites as Tikal, Palenque, Copán, and the like.
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I have 3 adorable assistants, Cats named Jose Pancho, Stela and Abby.
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Stela 31 at Tikal is the most extensive record found so far at that site.
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She also is happy to leave home -- to get away from the longing she shares with her sisters Jena, Iulia, and Stela, to visit the Other Kingdom again, and see her older sister, Tati.
The WritingYA Weblog: The Bee Goddess' Secret tanita davis 2008
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