Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil#Reign
{{Distinguish|Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name =Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil
| title =Ajaw
| image = Stele51CalakmulMuseum.JPG
| image_size =200px
| caption =Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil's portrait on Stela 51, dated to 731Martin & Grube 2000 p.113.
| coronation =
| full name =
| succession =King of CalakmulThe Ancient Maya, 6th Edition by Robert J. Sharer,Loa P. Traxer
| reign = 31 March 698-736
| predecessor =Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ
| successor =Wamaw Kʼawiil
| spouse = Lady of Stela 54http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/calvin/royal_dynasties_i.pdf [Kings] of Calakmul
| issue = Lady Tiʼ Kaan, Queen of La Corona
Wamaw Kʼawiil (possibly)
Lady Eveningstar, Queen of Yaxchilán (possibly)
| royal house = Snake dynasty
| father =Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ
| mother =
| birth_date =
| birth_place = Calakmul
| death_date = 736
| death_place = Calakmul
| date of burial =
| place of burial = Calakmul
| religion = Maya religion
| signature =
|}}
{{Maya civilization}}
Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil{{Pronunciation-needed}} (reigned 3 April 698{{Cite web|url=https://www.mesoweb.com/LaCorona/LaCoronaNotes03.pdf|title=La Corona Notes 1(3)|website=www.mesoweb.com}}-731>) was a Maya ruler[http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Article/897005&about=Categories&aboutData=3 Maya Kings] {{dead link|date=September 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} of the Kaan kingdom (Calakmul).{{cite book |author=Braswell, Geoffrey E. |author2=Gunn, Joel D. |author3=Dominguez Carrasco, María del Rosario |author4=Folan, William J. |author5=Fletcher, Laraine A. |author6=Morales López, Abel |author7=Glascock, Michael D. |year=2005 |chapter=Defining the Terminal Classic at Calakmul, Campeche |editor=Arthur A. Demarest |editor2=Prudence M. Rice |editor3=Don S. Rice|title=The Terminal Classic in the Maya lowlands: Collapse, transition, and transformation |url=https://archive.org/details/terminalclassici00arth |url-access=registration |location=Boulder |publisher=University Press of Colorado |pages=[https://archive.org/details/terminalclassici00arth/page/162 162–194]|isbn=0-87081-822-8 |oclc=61719499}}
Reign
Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil erected many stelae to celebrate the 9.13.10.0.0 period ending of 702.Martin & Grube 2008, p.112 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 Dos PilasMartin & Grube 2000, pp.111-112. (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 Tikal victory or recovered from it.
El Peru, as well, is known to have remained a vassal, with Tookʼ Kʼawiil supervising the accession of a new ruler of that site at some unknown date; and the continuing loyalty of Naranjo is suggested by the fact that as late as 711, a king there is still professing his allegiance to the late Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼahkʼ.Travel Cancun : Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, Xcaret, Mexican Riviera, and Yucatan Peninsula. This illustrated Travel Guide is designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices.
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 Anthropology in Mexico City.
The inference that Calakmul had fully recovered its bygone vitality, however, is belied by an altarMartin & Grube 2000, p.113. at Tikal showing a bound Calakmul prisoner; this dates to between 733 and 736 and is paired with a stela bearing the latter date.Jones and Linton Satterthwaite (1982) 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, pp.112-113)
Family
Wife of Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil was possibly Lady of Stela 54.
Lady Tiʼ Kaan, daughter of Yuknoom Tookʼ Kʼawiil married Yajaw Te' K'inich, lord of La Corona in 721.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mesoweb.com/articles/martin/Wives&Daughters.html|title=Mesoweb Articles|website=www.mesoweb.com}}