Tzinpitz (MH677v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tzimpitz (“Tapered at the Bottom”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the lower half of a man’s body, in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He wears a loincloth. A wavy line comes downward from his bottom (tzintli), perhaps a suggestion of diarrhea, which would point to the word apitza (to have diarrhea). Whether this is meant literally or serving as a phonetic indicator for the -pitz part of the name is unclear. If this compound has nothing to do with bottoms or diarrhea, then perhaps it is a compound that is fully phonetic to refer to a shape that is tapered toward the bottom (tzimpitzahua). Perhaps this name should be spelled Tzimpitz.