Tlacuilol (MH505v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or occupation, Tlacuilol (short for tlacuilolli, "A Piece of Writing, Painting, or Design," attested here as a male name), shows a hand holding a stylus used for writing. A left hand that is fisted, facing toward the viewer's right, and it is gripping the stylus in the middle. The stylus is at an angle, and the wider part is at the lower end. Given the gloss, this glyph could be short for tlacuilolli (a piece of writing, a painting), or it may have intended tlacuilo, writer/painter (just inadvertently adding a final l).
Stephanie Wood
Juan
tlacuilol
Juan Tlacuilol
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
writing, escritura, escribano, escribiendo, el estilo
tlacuilol(li), a piece of writing, a painting, or a design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli
La Escritura, La Carta (o, El Escribano)
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 505v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=90&st=image
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