Xilopacac (Verg25r)

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph is a black-line drawing of the personal name Xilopacac, attested here as a man’s name. It has two elements, the most important being a tender ear of maize (xilotl), which provides the start to the name. This ear of corn still has some of the husk on it, and the silk still also appears at the top. Above and to the left is a swallowtail flag flying to the left. The post it is on has a cap. Some of these features of the flag–which serves as a phonetic indicator for the -pa syllable–seem to show European artistic influences. The name ends with -pacac, which seems to mean “washed,” from the verb paca in the preterit tense.