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As for the hieroglyphs, tliose on the upper side of tlie fiehls 

 undoubtedly stand for the names of the boundaries of the land. 

 They are repeated in the separate rows of fields belonging to one 

 owner, because they do not denote the individual field, but the domain 

 within which it lies. In exactly the same way, on page 34 of the 

 (Joupil-Boban atlas, the same names of domains recur above and 

 beside the fields which are set down in rows after the various owners. 

 In our fragment eight different domains seem to be given. 



The first one is the same in ajl the rows (plate xiii) and is desig- 

 nated by the picture of a house above the field. The house in the 

 fourth row is drawn with a high, pointed, straw roof (painted yel- 

 low), that is, like the xacalli, which we saw in fragment II (plate 

 VII ). The others are apparently meant to represent the adobe houses 

 with flat roofs of beams, known as tlapechcalli (see i, figure 45, taken 

 from page M of the Goupil-Bol^an atlas). The layer of beams form- 

 ing the roof is marked here by red paint, like doorposts and the frames 

 of doors, which were always made of wood " and were therefore always 

 j)ainted red or brown. 



The second field in the third row (which is the most perfect) has 

 a hieroglyph at the top which represents the head of a coyote between 

 two streams of water. This domain mav, therefore, have been called 

 Coyoapan. The name of this domain is set down over the last field 

 in the first row. 



The third field in the third row has no hieroglyph at the top. 

 Perhaps the same one should be here which is over the fourth field 

 in the second I'ow and over the second field in tlie fourth row, and 

 also over the third field in the row to the right of the fragment (plate 

 xiii). It consists of a flag and two rows of teeth. The name of the 

 domain may have been Pantlan or Pancamac. Over the second field 

 in the fourth i-ow there is a stream of water in addition to the flag. 



The hieroglyph over the fourth field in the third row is somewhat 

 effaced; but I think that it is meant for the same hieroglyph that 

 is over the fourth field in the first row, and over the third field in the 

 second roAv, which consists of the picture of a hand and a stream of 

 water. The same hieroglyph probably occurred also over the third 

 field in the fourth row. In its ])lace there is a hole in the page, and 

 the edge of the paper is somewhat turned down; but the stream of 

 water belonging to this fourth hieroglyph is still plainly discernible 

 under the turned-down edge. 



The fifth field in the third row has above it a hieroglyph, which 

 occurs nowhere else in what is preserved of the other rows. It con- 

 sists of a fruit tree, a small flag, and a stream of water. 



The hieroglyph over the sixth field in the third row consists of the 

 svmbol zaca-tl, ''grass" (painted yellow), and a stream of water. 



" See J. Bautista Pomar, Relacion de Tetzcoeo, manuscript. 



