Tlamauhcatl (MH712r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tlamauhcatl (“Person from Tlamauhco”) is attested here as referring to a man. The glyph shows a thick vertical line on the right cheek of the tribute payer himself. His head is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right.
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See below for another example of Tlamauhcatl and two glyphs for the town, Tlamauhco. Most glyphs relating to Tlamauh (also spelled Tlamao) show the starry or stellar eye, the pre-contact style of a human eye that could double as a star in the sky. Regarding the thick vertical line on the cheek, in some glyphs one or two vertical stripes on a cheek can be a phonetic syllable for “hua” (possession), from huahuana, to make stripes. See the compound glyph for the place name, Acalhuacan, below. The Cihuateotl glyph, also below, shows how just one stripe can also emphasize the “hua” of, in this case, cihuatl.
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1560
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tlamao, teuctli, tecuhtli, conocimiento, nombres de hombres
tlamauh, wise man, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlamauh
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
(una persona de Tlamauhco)
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=502&st=image
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