Tollantzinco (Mdz30r)

This is a green, yellow, white, and terracotta-colored painting of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the place name Tollantzinco (perhaps, "Nuevo Tollan"). It features a group of four green tule reeds with small round yellow blossoms near the upper tips. The base of each reed is a small white rectangle. Coming out of the lower left corner of this group of reeds is half a man's body, terracotta-colored with the white waistband of a loincloth visible. The emphasis is on the rear end or buttocks, which brings forth the term tzintli. This is the phonetic syllable that supports the -tzinco locative suffix, which refers to new, little, lesser, or lower when put before the original version of the place name.