Tenantzinco (Mdz10v)

This colorful compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the place name Tenantzinco (perhaps "New Tenanco" or "At Lesser Tenanco") shows two principal visual components, a stepped/crenellated rampart (tenantli) painted turquoise blue and the lower half of a male body, sitting upright, facing to the viewer's left, intending tzintli, buttocks, bottom, rear end, but standing phonetically for the locative suffix -tzinco, meaning new, little, lower, or lesser prior to a place name. The body is painted a terracotta color, but the toenails and the loincloth waist band are white. The rampart has not only the rectangular and stepped crenellation, but four small concentric circles run horizontally along the wall below the crenellation. The -co locative suffix is not visible on its own.