Tentli (MH642v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tentli ("Lip" or "Lips," attested here as a man's name) shows an outline of a human face. It is missing the back of the head and has no hair. Its visible eye is closed, and its mouth is open. Apparently, the reader's attention is meant to go to the lips (tentli).
Stephanie Wood
Sometimes glyphs or elements for tentli (lips) or yacatl (nose) will be entirely isolated from the face, and very occasionally, not at all separate. The human eye, however, is typically separate. Perhaps it is distinct enough and that it does not have to appear within a face for it to be recognized. See below for other examples.
Stephanie Wood
juā. tentli
Juan Tentli
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
labios, bocas, caras, lips. mouths, faces, nombres de hombres
ten(tli), lips, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
Labios
Lips
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&st=image
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