Tlopan (MH755v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlopan (perhaps “On the Raptor”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The bird (tlotli) appears to sit atop a flag (pamitl) that flies to the right. While perhaps this could be a flag covered with tlotli feathers, the abbreviation of the word for pamitl (-pan) could suggest that the flag is a phonetic indicator for a locative suffix.
Stephanie Wood
This name is something like Tlocpa, but one might expect that to be possessed, and it is not possessed here.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
animales, pájaros, rapaz, rapaces, banderas, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas
tlo(tli), a falcon-like raptor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlotli
pam(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
-pan (locative suffix) on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
posiblemente, En el Rapaz
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 755v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=589&st=image
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