| Object Name: | Stele A (the young Halach Uinic) |
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| Creation Date: | 200-900 AD | |
| Culture: | Classic Maya | |
| Site: | Copan | |
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| Image source: | © Dr. Manuel Aguilar | |
| Stelae A and H, designed as a pair, face one another across the south end of the Great Plaza. Stela A is famous for its text proclaiming that 18 Rabbit's Kingdom of Copan ranked with three others - Tikal, Palenque and Calakmul - as one of the four greatest polities of the Maya world at the ending of 9.15.0.0.0 (A.D. 731). A halach uinic was also called ahau, a word that the sixteenth-century Maya defined as "king, emperor,monarch, prince or great lord." | ||
