tlantli (Mdz50r)

This one is a rare example of three front teeth, instead of the usual two. Other rare examples have four or even five front teeth. Then, there are the examples, where both upper and lower teeth are shown, often imbedded in a tree trunk or stone. Alternatively, the fuller set of teeth can be sticking out from something, also in profile. As Gordon Whittaker has noticed, the fuller set of teeth will often be found in place names that end in -titlan (although there are exceptions). Where teeth provide a locative suffix, they are playing a phonetic role, but here, where we have singled them out as an element, we could call them a logogram.