ARKY 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Terracotta Army, Tyrant, Bonampak
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This was inhabited from the mya from 580 - 800 ce. He left a large historical inscription, and the largest inscription of the myan language. We know from his perspective, what he claims to have done over the course of his reign. The elite buildings survive because they are made of stone, which survives well in the climate. The other buildings were organic, an there, didn"t last. They could be designed so you could talk down to the tomb. Another idea was that it could be used to pour things down to it. There was thus the idea that pakal could thus intervene in their lives from the after life. the death mask of pakal. Probably an idealized form, but it is well done. It was in the early dynastic periods iii (2600 - 2500 bce) When it was used it was closer to the persian gulf. This emperor as reviled as a tyrant originally.
