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tlalicuilol.

Headword: 
tlalicuilol.
Principal English Translation: 

a painter or painting of lands (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Hieroglyphs for two different men with this name or occupation are found in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (1560), analyzed in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs (ed. Stephanie Wood, 2020-present):
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalicuilol-mh746v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tlalicuilol-mh551r

Similar hieroglyphs are:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/millacuilol-mh641r
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/mocuemicuilo-mh521v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/cuentlacuilol-mh487v

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tlalicuilol = pintura o pintor de tierras
Manuel Orozco y Berra, Historia antigua y de la conquista de México (1960), 401.

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