Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil (reigned >702-731>) was a Maya ruler of the Kaan kingdom ( Calakmul).

Reign

Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil erected many stelae to celebrate the 9.13.10.0.0 period ending of 702. Although activity within the site is not necessarily an indicator of the strength of external relations, in the same year a variant of Tookʼ Kʼawiil's name appears in a text at

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(in external references including this one, he is called "Scroll-head Kʼawiil", one of a confusing series of alternatives and abbreviations for this king in the glyphic record). This suggests that Calakmul's sphere of influence had at least to some extent survived the

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victory or recovered from it.

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, as well, is known to have remained a

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, with Tookʼ Kʼawiil supervising the accession of a new ruler of that site at some unknown date; and the continuing loyalty of

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is suggested by the fact that as late as 711, a king there is still professing his allegiance to the late

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. The 9.15.0.0.0 '' kʼatun'' ending in 731 saw an even more impressive spate of monument erection by Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil; before looters sawed off their faces in the 1960s, the stelae erected at the base of Structure 1 were the finest surviving sculptures from Calakmul. The magnificent Stela 51, a depiction of Yuknoom, survives in the National Museum of

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. The inference that Calakmul had fully recovered its bygone vitality, however, is belied by an

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showing a bound Calakmul prisoner; this dates to between 733 and 736 and is paired with a stela bearing the latter date. Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil may be named in the damaged caption, and Wamaw Kʼawiil is known to have replaced him on the throne in 736.Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube (2008:112-113)

Family

Wife of Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil was possibly Lady of Stela 54. A daughter of Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil married a lord of

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in 721.

References

{{Authority control Kings of Calakmul 8th century in the Maya civilization 8th-century monarchs in North America