Teocal (MH836r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teocal ("Temple," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a pre-contact style temple with four steps leading up to a building (calli) with an open doorway and a thatched roof. The entry way has a horizontal lintel and one upright beam on either side. The base of the upright beams are painted black.
Stephanie Wood
Note how the teocalli compares to the teopan in the examples below. The two words have essentially the same meaning, but the teocalli more often has a building at the top of the stepped pyramid.
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peo teocal
Pedro Teocal
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
temples, stepped pyramids, religious structures, religious buildings, architecture, thatch, edificios, arquitectura, nombres de hombres
teocal(li), a temple or church, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocalli
teopan, a temple or church, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teopan
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 836r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=403&st=image
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