tlatzacuilotl (MH520r)
This element capturing a wooden door (tlatzacuilotl) comes from the compound personal name Cuauhtlatzacuilotl, which adds an emphasis on wood. What we see is a frontal view of an upright rectangle with lines crossing it at angles, creating something of a mesh pattern.
Stephanie Wood
The example of the use of tlatzacuilotl in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary may suggest Christian influence, so perhaps this is a repurposing of an older term.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
doors, puertas
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tlatzacuillo(tl), a gate or a bridge, a wooden structure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatzacuillotl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&st=image.
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