Xitomahuacan (MH704v)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xitomahuacan (“Where They Have Red Tomatoes”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a red, white, and black building in profile. It has a T-shaped entrance, where the beams are red, but the lower end of the vertical beam is black. Inside the entryway is a red tomato plant, with two leaves and three red tomatoes (xitomatl). The tomatoes have shading from dark red to light, giving them a three-dimensionality.