Tecuictlacoz (Verg50v)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Tecuictlacoz (perhaps intending Teuctlacoz or Tecuhtlacoz, “The Lord Will Sin”?), attested here as a man’s name. The compound has three elements. It begins at the bottom with the head of a lord (teuctli or tecuhtli), in profile, facing left. The diadem is barely visible, but it is a crucial part of the iconography for teuctli. Above this are two, upper, front teeth (tlantli) with a small amount of gum. This serves as the phonetic syllable -tla-. Finally, at the top is a pottery jug (comitl), which provides the phonetic syllable -co. The final -z in this name is not shown visually, although it does appear in another rendition of this hieroglyph, where a needle pierces (zozo) the jug. [See the Cossich Vielman thesis, 2014, pp. 98–99.]