Itzpan (MH490r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Itzpan (perhaps "On the Obsidian") shows an upright flag or banner (panitl) blowing to the viewer's right. The upright, rectangular banner has a segmented right edge, with short horizontal lines, perhaps suggesting obsidian blades (itztli). The decipherment here requires further thought.
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood
alonso ytzpā
Alonso Itzpan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
banderas, obsidiana
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pan(itl), banner/flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
itz(tli), obsidian, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 490r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=59&st=image
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