Tlalli (MH529v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli (perhaps "Soil") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird's eye view of a number of dots that may suggest dirt or soil. They are contained in a circle, but it seems unlikely that an agricultural plot would be circular, so perhaps the circle is just to contain the dots.
Stephanie Wood
The shape of glyphs for tlalli in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco are often squares or circles, whereas in the Codex Mendoza they are typically long rectangles divided into segments of alternating colors, and what may be cultivation marks are dots and u-shapes. See some examples below.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
lands, parcels, tierras, agricultura, tenencia de la tierra, terrenos, sementeras
tlal(li), land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e
Sementera
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 529v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=138&st=image
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