Toltecolol (MH499r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Toltecolol (here, attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a vertical, curving, stone arch with a blackened entryway. The arch is segmented by the stones. The word for stone arch is (tecololli), which is literally a stone curving thing (tetl) + (colli). The Tol- part of the name may come from tolcalli, which Juan José Batalla Rosado explains is arcos in Spanish (arches). He points out how a curving arched doorway, sometimes called tecololli in Nahuatl but perhaps better represented by tolcalli, is a European architectural introduction. [See: "Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental en los glifos de los códices coloniales del Centro de México: el caso de los antropónimos nahuas," in El arte de escribir. El Centro de México: del Posclásico al siglo XVII, eds. Juan José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio (Zinacantepec, Estado de México: El Colegio Mexiquense, A. C., 2018), 84.]