Tozo (MH886v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozo (perhaps “He Stayed Up Late”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of what may be a man, in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. His face has lines on it, perhaps from staying up late at night (from the verb, tozoa). There is something next to his head which might make this glyph a compound, but the object has yet to be identified. It looks like a white triangle with its point down and a line coming downward from that point.
Stephanie Wood
As yet (March 2025), there are no other glyphs relating to this theme and no others with the white triangle on a stick.
Stephanie Wood
anto. toço
Antonio Tozo
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
sin dormir, mantenerse despierto, nombres de hombres

tozoa, to stay up late, keep vigil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozoa
Se Quedó Despierto Muy Noche
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=845&st=image.
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