The Throne 1 Piedras Negras

The Throne 1 Piedras Negras, was located originally inside the main room of the palace on the Acropolis. The archaeologists who discovered it in 1932 determined that this throne was violently broken and scattered its fragments in ancient times.

Such destruction seems to have been a result of the defeat suffered Piedras Negras to Yaxchilan in the year 808 d.C. This monument was sculpted by commission K’inich Yat Ahk II, Ruler 7 the site.
The backrest of the throne has the shape of a mask of the witz monster, ‘mountain’. The eyes of this supernatural creature emerge from the busts of profile of the two ancestors, perhaps the parents of K’inich Yat Ahk II. Both characters wear your hair stylishly tied up and were represented in an attitude of conversation between them. His dress denoted the high social rank, for carrying earrings, necklaces and bracelets of jade.

Three panels of hieroglyphs carved with elegance, one in vertical format and two in the horizontal position. The vertical panels of hieroglyphs was found in the lower left and right of the back, and record the names and titles of the two sculptors of the monument.The hieroglyphic inscriptions on the edge of the bench, and on the sides and front of the media narrate important events in the life of the last two rulers of Piedras Negras. The text in the banking mentions an event of dedication followed by the date of birth of K’inich Yat Ahk II II and the name of his mother.

Text-based Héctor L. Escobedo A., and Sara Elizabeth Garcia