Tlacotl (BMapL77)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacotl (perhaps “Stick” or “Twig”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical stick with four short, cutoff branches coming off it. It stands up on the top of the head of the man whose name this is. The man’s visible eye is closed, which may suggest that he is deceased. Perhaps this stick went into his head and killed him.
Stephanie Wood
Tlacotl glyphs shows a range of visual expression. See some examples below. This one looks a lot like some other glyphs entirely, such as tzihuacmitl and necuametl.
Stephanie Wood
This glyph is not glossed; the transliteration of the glyph comes from Gordon Whittaker’s contribution to the study by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy (2012).
c. 1565
Jeff Haskett-Wood
palos, bastones, varas, ramitas, nombres de hombres
tlaco(tl), a stick, a staff, or an osier twig, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl
Stephanie Wood
Beinecke Map/Codex Reese, section 8, no. 77 in the Whittaker study (published in the Miller/Mundy book, 2012), and see the original at: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3600017
The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).
