Tetlamali (MH604r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetlamali (“He Captured People for Someone,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of stone (tetl)] with its curling ends and curving, diagonal, alternating stripes of white and black (or light and dark). In front of the stone is a piece of twisted grass (malinalli) with the shape of a figure 8. Both elements provide phonograms for the verb tetlamalia, to capture people for someone.