Tozo (MH886v)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozo (perhaps “He Stayed Up Late”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of what may be a man, in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. His face has lines on it, perhaps from staying up late at night (from the verb, tozoa). Next to his head there is a piercing tool, which calls to the fore the verb zoa, to pierce. It looks like a white triangle with its point down and a line coming downward from that point.