Tlatol (MH814v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatol (or Tlahtol, with the glottal stop, “Word,” attested here as a man’s name) shows speech scrolls emerging from the mouth of the tribute payer. (Sometimes they come from an additional human head or simply float somewhat in front of the tribute payer.) These are three volutes, one curling upward at the end and the other two curling downward.
Stephanie Wood
As in most cases, the term "tlatolli" (or tlahtolli, with the glottal stop) is shown as oral. There are three examples where it has been put on paper and, in one supporting example, carved on stone. See the Ilhuizol glyph and our iconographic entries at the bottom of the see-also list, below, that we are calling tlacuiloliztli (even if these examples are polysemous).
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
nombres de hombres, palabras, hablar, volutas, oralidad, escritura
tlatol(li), speech, words, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatolli
La Palabra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 814v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=703&st=image
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