Tetlacuilol (MH670r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetlacuilol (perhaps “Written in Stone” or “Carved in Stone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal stone (tetl), which seems to play a logographic role. The stone has curling ends and diagonal stripes in the middle. These diagonals are bound by pairs of vertical stripes, serving like borders, which are unusual. Above the stone is an emerging piece of paper with small markings that suggest alphabetic writing (tlacuilolli) even if they are not legible.
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See other examples of tetlacuilolli below. One of those clearly also involves a piece of paper. But several suggest stone carving or sculpting, such as in the making of columns, or the carving of designs in stone.
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franco. tetlacuilol.
Francisco Tetlacuilol
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
escritura alfabética, escultura, piedras, nombres de hombres
tetlacuilol(li), a piece of writing carved in stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetlacuilolli
tlacuilol(li), a piece of writing or a painting, or a design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
Escrito en Piedra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 670r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=420&st=image.
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