Iztayahual (MH774v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Iztayahual ("Salt Cake") is attested here as a man's name. The salt cake is represented simply as a circle left white or natural. The term for salt cake is literally a white circle, making the glyph entirely logical, and possibly visually phonetic.
Stephanie Wood
po yztayahual
Pedro Iztayahual
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
sal, producción, nombres de hombres, comida, condimentos
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iztayahual(li), a salt cake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iztayahualli
Pan de Sal
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 774v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=623&st=image
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