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may, perhaps, be intended for a piece of obsidian (iztli). Accord- 

 ing to this, we liave itz-te-cozca-tepe as elements of the hieroglyph; 

 but 1 can not construct any place name known to me out of these 

 elements. 



I will now pass on to columns d and e. In d we have in square 

 60 the mummy bundle and a hieroglyph which in the Kingsborough 

 drawing is absolutely incompre- 

 hensible, but which in the orig- 

 inal, and also in our reproduc- 

 tion, can be recognized, with 

 some difficulty, to be sure, as the 

 head of a beast of prey with 

 outstretched tongue. We should 

 read this Ocelotl, " jaguar ". A 

 seated figure then follows, in 

 square 61, whose head is not 

 adorned with the royal head- 

 band,the xiuhuitzolli,and v.hose 

 long hair hangs down behind, 

 wound round with a strap, after 

 the manner of priests. A cac- 

 tus branch is behind it, by way 

 of name hieroglyph. Cactus 

 branches, with the blossoms, 

 often occur in the register of 

 names of persons of Uexotzinco 

 and Xaltepetlapan (Manuscrit 

 Mexicain number 8, Bibliothe- 

 que Rationale, Paris), shown in 

 figure 35 (a, 1 to 5) . There they 

 denote the name Nochuetl, wliich 

 is also frequently mentioned in 

 the Anales of Chimalpahin. A 

 cactus branch in conjunction 

 with an arroAv is li|vewise used 

 there to represent the name 

 Tziuac mitl, h. It seems, there- 

 fore, that a variety of cactus was meant by Tziuactli, or tzinuactli. 

 This name, too, which likewise occurs in the Anales of Chimalpa- 

 hin, might be expressed by the hieroglyph in scpiare 61, colunni i) 

 (plate vi). 



In the hieroglyph which accompanies the munnny bundle, in square 

 64, column d (plate vi), I think I recognize the head of a deer and an 

 upright tuft of feathers. The deer is mazatl, and the upright tuft of 

 feathers should probably be read quetzalli. According to this we 



Fig. 35. Symbols of personal and place names in 

 Mexican codices. 



