Tlalticpaque (Verg12v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlalticpaque (“He With Land Up Above," attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangular parcel of land that is segmented into two portions and has a border along the bottom and the two sides. One has one large black dot in the middle; the other side has many small dots (perhaps suggesting cultivation). Below the land are a set of two front teeth (tlantli), providing some phonetic support for the "Tlal-" start to the name. To the left of the land element is a man's hairdo (which might be tzontli). Perhaps this is a semantic indicator pointing to what is on top (but referring to land in this case). Above the hair is a vertical pole with a banner blowing to the left. The banner has a triangular cut out, resulting in the style of a European flag of two points. The flag pole also has a cap on the top. One more item, suspended in the air to the right of the banner, is a small, circular black and white object. This may be a bean [etl, providing the phonetic dimension for the -e at the end of the name.