Yaomana (MH876r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yaoman (“He Declares War”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two war shields, with two different designs. The upper one has a shape where it appears the top and the bottom have a scoop out of the whole, curving inward, while the right and left edges curve outward. An X reaches from corner to corner, and there is a mark in each of the quadrants made by the X. The lower shield, connected by a line to the upper one, is round with some fringe at the bottom. A curving line cuts across the shield, leaving a larger portion at the bottom than at the top. Each of these regions have marks in them. These are typically U-shapes, but they are hastily drawn here. Both designs are very common Nahua shield designs.