Texal (MH668r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Texal (“Sandstone for Sharpening Tools”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical stone (tetl) with curling ends and alternating light and dark stripes. Two other curling ends of stones appear next to this vertical stone. One of these is gray, perhaps suggesting sand (xalli). These elements seem to provide the phonetic indicators that combine to form texalli, which refers to a specific type of stone.