Teotlaltzinco (MH810r)

This painting of the compound glyph for the place name Teotlaltzinco (perhaps, "New Teotlalco”) shows two large concentric circles, one black and one white, which form a border at the far edge. The interior is segmented into groups of short straight lines--horizontal and vertical--and large black dots. 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 white loincloth. His knees are raised, and his right foot is relatively large. 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.