Teahuiltin (Verg46v)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Teahuiltin (perhaps “Playful People”), which is attested here as a man’s name. The compound shows what appears to be a dancer with a posture of movement. He wears a belted tunic with folds that give it a three-dimensionality. He is barefooted. In each hand he has devices that might usually be held by dancers. To the left of the device in his right hand is a spray of water (atl) with four droplets splashing off the little stream. Perhaps this conveys the phonetic syllable -a-, which appears in the middle of the name.