Stela 45 of Naranjo and the Early Classic Lords of Sa'aal

Abstract

During the 2004 field season of the Project of Archaeological Research and Salvage at the site of Naranjo, Peten, Guatemala, a team of archaeologists led by Dr. Vilma Fialko uncovered Early Classic sculpture fragments in the fill of the main structure of Triadic Acropolis C-9. This paper presents the results of preliminary epigraphic and iconographic analysis of these fragments, which belong to a previously unknown monument (Stela 45) commissioned by the king Naatz Chan Ahk. Among other things, the inscriptions and imagery on the new stela make reference to an otherwise unknown Early Classic king of Naranjo, Tzik’in Bahlam, and suggest that the seat of the lords of Sa’aal was at Naranjo by the fifth century AD.

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