Tlalton (MH552r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlalton (“Little Agricultural Parcel,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangle with smaller concentric rectangles. The border area contains small circles all the way around and just inside the largest rectangle. Inside that is a white border. Within the white border is a dotted area, probably suggesting cultivation. The diminutive (-ton-) is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
This Tlalton simplex glyphs is much like the one for Tlalicuilol, with its elaborate designs, and yet different from the tlalli with segmentation, two colors, dots, and sideways U-shapes of the Codex Mendoza.
pedro tlalto
Pedro Tlalton
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
sementeras, diseños en las tierras
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tlal(li), land parcel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalli
ton(tli), small, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli
La Sementera Pequeña
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 552r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=183&st=image.
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