| Object Name: | Jade death mask of Pascal the Great |
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| Creation Date: | 200-900 AD | |
| Culture: | Classic Maya | |
| Site: | Palenque, Chiapas | |
| Material: | jade | |
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| Image source: | CSULA Art Dept Visual Resources | |
| Pakal was born on March 26, AD 603 and died on August 31, AD 683. Pakal acceded as ruler of Palenque in AD 615, at the age of twelve and ruled for sixty eight years. During a long lifetime of accomplishments, he brought Palenque into its own as a leading city of the Late Classic period. As an old man feeling the approach of death, he began the construction of his funerary temple, the Pyramid of the Inscriptions, around the year AD 675. | ||
