Ocelotl (MH500r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ocelotl (here, attested as a man’s name) shows the head of a jaguar (ocelotl) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. His visible eye is wide open, teeth are sharp and visible, and his tongue is long an protruding significantly. His coat is spotted, and his whiskers stand out from his face. His appearance is somewhat ferocious.
Stephanie Wood
Some slanting lines cover part of the jaguar's tongue, but it is unclear if this is intentional shading. There is no shading around the ear, for instance.
Stephanie Wood
diego
ocelotl
Diego Ocelotl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
jaguars, jaguares, animales, tongues, lenguas, rojo, nombres de hombres
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ocelo(tl), a jaguar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocelotl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 500r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=79&st=image
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