Cuauhtli Icuil (MH830r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name Cuauhtli Icuil (perhaps “Painted Eagle” or "The Eagle's Design") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. Its beak is slightly open, making the hook especially notable. Added to the feathers on the neck of the eagle is a design with two horizontal lines and, below that, a row of dots. Below these designs are what appear to be four short streams of water. The design added to the eagle’s head may be a possessed design (with i- being the third person singular possessive pronoun) and -cuil- referring to painting, writing, or encoding. More research on this glyph and its gloss could benefit the translation of the name.