tlacuilo (MH894v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation of tlacuilo (“Writer” or “Painter”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a writing or painting implement, at a slight angle, leaning to the left. It has a fine point and a wider piece that runs from about the middle of the implement down toward the extension with the point.
Stephanie Wood
This implement varies from some of the other hieroglyphs for tlacuilo (below).
Stephanie Wood
Juo q~uhtli tlacuillo
Juan Cuauhtli, tlacuilo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
escribano, pintor, escribir, pintar, oficios

tlacuilo, writer or painter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilo
escribano
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 894v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=861&st=image.
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