# Panel with Royal Woman

- By: K’in Lakam Chahk
- By: Jun Nat Omootz
- Date: c. 795
- Medium: limestone
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: Overall: 60.4 x 69.8 cm (23 3/4 x 27 1/2 in.)
- Culture: Guatemala or Mexico, Usumacinta River region, Maya style
- Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1962.32)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1962.32/1962.32_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this panel, probably from a palace interior, the woman’s static posture contrasts with the liveliness of the creature she holds, a god of royalty with a serpent leg and a grotesque head with a smoking torch on its brow. (The same deity is shown in the nearby Eccentric Flint.) Other signs of high rank are her jade jewelry and costume, its beauty suggesting that textiles and featherwork were great Maya arts, now lost to a tropical climate. The hieroglyphics refer to an undefined ritual that the woman completed in 795.