Tecuichpoch (MH505v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Tecuichpoch, is here attested as a man’s name, perhaps surprisingly. It consists of two elements, the diadem worn by a lord and representative of his status (tecuhtli), and an unmarried woman ichpochtli, evidenced by her hair hanging to her shoulders. Married women of sedentary society usually wore their hair twisted up into to points above their foreheads, as seen in other glyphs for women. The Tecu- prefix suggests that she is a lordly maiden. Perhaps a man with this name had a mother who was of the nobility.