Ixcotl (MH526r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixcotl or Ixco (“On the Face” or "Palm Fiber," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of an upside-down (stellar) eye (ixtli), which can stand for eye but also face, hence the term Ixco referring to something on the face. But the eye can also provide the phonetic value for Ix- if the name is not to be read literally, but rather stands for ixcotl, a type of palm fiber. Above the half-eye is a ceramic jug (comitl), the phonetic indicator for the -co syllable regardless of the reading of "On the Face" or "Palm Fiber." Thus, this compound is either a combined logogram and phonogram, or contains two phonograms.