tlantli (Verg6v)
This black-line drawing of the element for tlantli (teeth) has been carved from the compound glyph for Tlahtolzazaca. In that compound, it was a phonetic indicator, but here, where it is included as a literal representation of teeth, it is a simplex logogram.
Stephanie Wood
1539
Jeff Haskett-Wood
tlan(tli), tooth, teeth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlantli
Codex Vergara, folio 6v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f20.item
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