Texopanecatl (MH871v)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Texopanecatl (“Person from Texopan”), pertains here to a man. The glyph shows what appears to be a diadem (the sign for tecuhtli, a lord, a high noble) with a mesh pattern and a white boundary. This is bracketed by what might be volutes on end, curving up and away from the diadem. Perhaps these are speech scrolls that could point to tlatoani, one who speaks, i.e., a ruler. Either short lines come down from the diadem, somewhat reminiscent of the shimmer of tonalli (the solar energizing force). How all this provides a reading of Texopanecatl is unclear, beyond the start of the name being Te- (from tecuhtli). This may well be a compound, but until more becomes clear, it will be a simplex phonogram.