Tlaltzon (MH551v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlaltzon (“Land-Hair,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangular piece of land (tlalli) with a profile view of a large clump of human hair (tzontli) coming off the upper right corner of the rectangle and blowing toward the viewer's right. The hair is reminiscent of the ponytail worn by priests and warriors. The land parcel has an unusual amount of decoration, including a frame around it that contains small circles with dots in the middle, reminiscent of the circles that decorate a ruler's palace (tecpan) or the droplets or beads that splash off of streams of water. Inside the rectangle are many dots, seemingly suggesting cultivation.