Tlahuical (MH815v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuical (perhaps “Husband,” “Servant,” or “Someone Taken Elsewhere”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Below this head are four U-shapes, perhaps a horse’s hoof prints (which would imply European influences on the writing system here). One of the definitions of tlahuicalli refers to something taken somewhere else. So perhaps the hoof prints–-if that is what they are–-are referring to that meaning as a semantic complement to the man’s head (which might still be read as spouse or servant). Further research could assist with this decipherment.