Tlalli (MH564r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalli (“Land” or "Agricultural Parcel," attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a circle filled with dots, possibly suggesting cultivation.
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 the cultivation marks are dots and u-shapes. See some examples below.
Stephanie Wood
dieo tlalli
Diego Tlalli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
lands, parcels, tierras, agricultura, tenencia de la tierra, terrenos, sementeras
tlal(li), agricultural land parce, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
La Tierra, o La Sementera
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 564r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=207&st=image
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