Ixtlil (MH626r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixtlil (perhaps "Black Face") is attested here as a man's name. It shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. A large black (tlilli) spot appears on the man's cheekbone, not on the eye, which pushes the reading more toward face than eye. The term ixtli can refer to either eye or face.
Stephanie Wood
This may be an apocopation of the fuller name, Ixtlilxochitl, borne by rulers of Tetzcoco.
Stephanie Wood
partasal
yxtlil
Baltazar Ixtlil
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
colors, colores, negro, caras, faces, black, nombres de hombres, cara negra, Ixtlilxochitl
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/IxtlilMH626rCmpndPerNamMale.png?itok=4sSlWEUO)
ix(tli), face, eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
tlil(li), the color black or black ink, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
Cara Negra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334st=image.
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