Tlilpotonqui (TK205r)

In this case the personal name refers to a Nahua ruler of Tepetlaoztoc (spelled Tepetlaoxtoc today). The full page in the codex shows tributes paid, along with the wives, children, and the grandchildren of this man, all drawn in the form of a genealogy. He was baptized Diego and given the honorific “don,” which entered Nahuatl from the Spanish language. The contextualizing image shows don Diego wearing a colorful cloak (surely called a tilmatli, although the term is not used in the companion text) with an elaborate flower design. His children and wives are all dressed in finery, too. He is seated on a woven throne (surely called an icpalli).

The term tlilpotonqui, when entered in the Quick Search, will produce a wide range of diverging visual hieroglyphic elements. Some are round black objects, perhaps rubber balls, which could serve as a phonetic syllable, tlil- (black). Others look like they could involve sticks with black feathers or twisted grass blades. But the definitive assessment is still elusive. See some examples below.

Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K03_A in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K03_A.