Schele, Linda, and David A. Freidel. 1990. A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.: 112, Fig. II.4

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Stela 11, dedicated on August 22, AD 731, shows accession of Ruler 4. The ruler sits atop a scaffold framed by a skyband and topped by a Celestial Bird. A dead sacrificial victim lays across an altar at the bottom register.