Chiantlan (MH878r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Chiantlan (perhaps “Among the Chia Seed Plants”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a building with two plants on the roof. These seem to be chian (chia seed) plants. The -tlan locative suffix (among or near) is not represented visually. The building provides a semantic locative, confirming that this is a place. The name pertains to a barrio (as seen in the contextualizing image).
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The term chian or chiyantli is also sometimes spelled with an “e” in the place of the “a.” It was a food plant and it produced an oil which had various uses. It remains popular to this day. See an image of a chia plant in the California desert, below. Many chian glyphs involve black dots, but this one seems to focus on the flowers.
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chiatlan
Chiatlan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
semillas, chia, topónimos, plantas, nombres de lugares
Desert Chia plant. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joshua_Tree_National_Park_flower...

chian, a food plant with oil-producing seeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chian
chiyan(tli), chia seeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiyantli
Entre las Plantas de la Chía
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 878r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=828&st=image.
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