ixtli (Osu15r)
This is a black-line drawing of the element ixtli ("eye") taken from the compound glyph visorrey (see below). It shows the frontal view of an eye.
Stephanie Wood
The Nahuatl noun ixtli can refer to eyes or faces, but this visual is clearly evoking an eye.
Stephanie Wood
1551–1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
eyes, faces, ojos, caras

ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
Ojo
Stephanie Wood
Library of Congress Online Catalog and the World Digital Library, Osuna Codex, or Painting of the Governor, Mayors, and Rulers of Mexico (Pintura del Gobernador, Alcaldes y Regidores de México), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_07324/. The original is located in the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
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