Tecpan (Mdz5v)

This compound glyph for the place name Tecpan, includes a building with small, concentric black and white circles that indicate it is a palace. It also includes a turquoise-colored diadem (with a red, possibly leather, tie) of the type worn by a high noble male, or lord (teuctli or tecuhtli), which also makes it clear that this is a palace. The building is a standard calli in the way it is shown in a profile view (in this case, facing the viewer's left), with its t-shaped wooden beams supporting the entrance. But is is a special type of building, and cal- does not figure in the phonetic reading, if we go by the gloss. The word tecpan has a built-in locative suffix of sorts (-pan, in or on), and the building would provide a semantic locative, too.