Tlalton (MH550r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalton ("Little Piece of Land" or “Little Agricultural Parcel,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangular piece of agricultural land (tlalli). The reference to the land being diminutive (-ton) is not obvious in the visual representation of the name. This tlalli echoes the land parcels with considerable decoration--a frame with circles that have dots in the middle plus a dotted interior of the rectangle--are reminiscent of the name glyphs in this same codex for Tlaltzon and Tlalicuilol (see below).