Teotlaltzinco (MH810r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Teotlaltzinco (perhaps, “At the Sacred Land” or “Little Teotlalco”) shows two large concentric circles that form a border at the far edge. The interior is segmented into little squares, each one with a footprint inside. The separations are rows over very short lines, some horizontal and some vertical. The whole interior of the large inner circle is painted yellow. At the very center of the inner circle is the lower half of a man’s body. He wears only a loincloth; it has a mesh pattern on it. His knees are raised, and his right foot leads forward a bit, suggesting motion. Typically, this partial male body is meant to point to the tzintli (buttocks) and yet stand as a phonetic indicator for the reverential or diminutive suffix -tzin or the locative suffix -tzinco, which refers to a spinoff community. If the latter, the place name would be something like Little Teotlalco or Lower Teotlalco.