<P> Stela 26 was found in the summit shrine of Temple 34, underneath a broken masonry altar . The monument had originally been erected at the base of the temple during the Early Classic period and was later broken, probably at the beginning of the Late Classic . Its remains were then interred within the temple shrine . </P> <P> Stela 29 bears a Long Count (8.12. 14.8. 15) date equivalent to AD 292, the earliest surviving Long Count date from the Maya lowlands . The stela is also the earliest monument to bear the Tikal emblem glyph . It bears a sculpture of the king facing to the right, holding the head of an underworld jaguar god, one of the patron deities of the city . The stela was deliberately smashed during the 6th century or some time later, the upper portion was dragged away and dumped in a rubbish tip close to Temple III, to be uncovered by archaeologists in 1959 . </P> <P> Stela 30 is the first surviving monument to be erected after the Hiatus . Its style and iconography is similar to that of Caracol, one of the more important of Tikal's enemies . </P> <P> Stela 31 is the accession monument of Siyaj Chan K'awiil II, also bearing two portraits of his father, Yax Nuun Ayiin, as a youth dressed as a Teotihuacan warrior . He carries a spearthrower in one hand and bears a shield decorated with the face of Tlaloc, the Teotihuacan war god . In ancient times the sculpture was broken and the upper portion was moved to the summit of Temple 33 and ritually buried . Stela 31 has been described as the greatest Early Classic sculpture to survive at Tikal . A long hieroglyphic text is carved onto the back of the monument, the longest to survive from the Early Classic, which describes the arrival of Siyah K'ak' at El Peru and Tikal in January 378 . It was also the first stela at Tikal to be carved on all four faces . </P>

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