Cuauhtecpan (MH843r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtecpan (“Wooden Bars” or "Wooden Trellis," attested here as a man’s name) shows an eagle's (cuauhtli) head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The eagle's visible eye is open, as is its beak. The feathers on its neck and on the top of its head are spiky. Here, the eagle serves as a phonetic indicator for cuauh- (wooden). In the eagle's mouth is a flint knife (tecpatl), which is a near homophone for tecpan, which can refer to groups of twenty (tecpantli) or to put things in a row (short for tecpana).