Ixtlil (MH744v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixtlil (“Face-Black”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a person’s head with a black (tlilli) face (ixtli). These features are merged, but there is another element. A white flower with three petals and a three-part sepal appears in front of the side of the head.
Stephanie Wood
The flower suggests the fuller name may have been Ixtlilxochitl, being named after a famous ruler of Tetzcoco. Or perhaps the flower is just meant to help the viewer conclude that the black face indeed meant Ixtlil and not some ethnicity, or the like. Other glyphs in this collection do include an Ixtlil and an Ixtlilxochitl.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
caras, color negro, nombres de hombres, nombres famosos
![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/IxtlilMH744vCmpndPerNamMale.png?itok=6Nw_e4Ri)
ix(tli), eye or face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
tlil(li), black, ink, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
Ixtlilxochitl, the name of rulers in Tetzcoco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Ixtlilxochitl
Cara Negra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 744v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=567&st=image
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/IxtlilMH744vContext.png)