Texpol (MH529r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Texpol (“Stone-Ground Flour,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a horizontal stone (tetl) with its diagonal, alternating stripes and curling ends. Below the stone is a bowl for grinding (molcaxitl) or sauce (molli). The bowl contents are a pile of small circles, perhaps representing grains (corn kernels?) that are to be ground into flour (texpololli). Around or on the stone are fine lines in a sort of mesh; perhaps this is meant to be flour. The name apparently has to do with stone-ground flour.