La Corona

This article is about the Mayan archaeological site. For the film, see La Corona (film). For the opera, see La corona (Gluck). For other uses, see Corona (disambiguation).
A limestone staircase riser showing a ball game scene.[1][2] La Corona, 8th century. Height: 25.1 cm; length: 43.2 cm Chicago Art Institute
Two palanquins, Dallas Museum of Art
SMU graduate student Stanley Guenter cleans a panel of Maya glyphs discovered at La Corona.[3] This particular panel helped point to La Corona as the long-sought "Site Q". The panel's left side depicts king K'inich Yook of Sak Nikte'.

La Corona is the name given by archaeologists to an ancient Maya court residence in Guatemala's Petén department that was discovered in 1996, and later identified as the long-sought "Site Q", the source of a long series of unprovenanced limestone reliefs of exceptional artistic quality. The site's Classical name appears to have been Sak-Nikte' ('White-Flower').

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  3. ^ "Long-Sought Maya City – Site Q – Found in Guatemala". Office of Public Affairs. Yale University. September 27, 2005. Archived from the original on 8 February 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2023.