Xochiteca (Verg10r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiteca (“Person from Xochitlan," or, the name of a famous woman sacrificial victim) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows multiple elements. The flower (xochitl) appears on the lower left in a frontal view. It has a long stem, with a hand apparently hovering over it. Above the fingers of the hand is a partial face in profile, facing toward the left, meant to emphasize the lips (tentli) and provide the phonetic start to the suffix referring to affiliation (-teca). Above this partial face is a frontal view of a horizontal stone (tetl), with its diagnostic curling ends and two wavy stripes across the middle. The presence of the stone further underlines the "-te-" start for -teca. But the "-ca" of -teca does not seem to be represented visually.