Tlilpitzac (MH717r)
This simplex glyph for the personal name, Tlilpitzac (perhaps, “Black Stripe”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows one thin, vertical, black stripe.
Stephanie Wood
Molina notes that this can refer to a staff of office or a rope. In the Florentine Codex (according to A. Wimmer 2004), tlilpitzahuac is found as a description for a skirt with vertical black stripes. The skirts in this digital collection do sometimes have vertical black stripes (see below).
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
rayado, negro, nombres de hombres
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tlil(li), black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
pitzactic, something thin and long, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pitzactic
posiblemente, Raya Negra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 717r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=512&st=image
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