Tlilpotonqui (MH775v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlilpotonqui ("Black Feather Adornment for a Priest") is attested here as a man's name. It shows simply a circle painted black (tlilli), providing the semantic and phonetic start to the name.
Stephanie Wood
pedro . tlilpotoqui
Pedro Tlilpotonqui
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
black, tinta, color negro, feathers, plumas, regalia, devices, nombres de hombres
tlilpotonqui, a personal name, a title, a priest who wore a feather adornment, or a rare bean, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilpotonqui
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 775v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=625&st=image
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