Large Death Mask of Pakal - K'inich Janaab' Pakal, King, Pacal, Pacal the Great, Palenque, Wood Carved - from Mexico, Maya, Yucatan

Large Death Mask of Pakal - Wood Carved and Painted - from Mexico, Maya, Yucatan

15 1/2 inches tall x 23 inches wide at the ends of the earring sticks.

History:
The original artifact jade death mask of Maya king Kinich Janaab Pakal, c. 683 CE, Palenque was found over a thousand years later, inside the sarcophagus of the Pakal the Great during the excavation of a tunnel under the Temple of Inscriptions pyramid at Palenque. It is now on display inside a superb recreation of Pakal's tomb at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.