Ceton (MH827v)

Ceton (MH827v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ceton (perhaps “A Little Bit”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a flower with three red petals and a white base and stem. Below the flower, where the ground might be, are many little dots. This is something like sand.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The flower of the glyph is not especially well represented by the visual elements, and it does not bring forth “Ceton.” The tiny dots below the flower might be more likely to provide that reading.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā çetu

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Ceton

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
Keywords: 

pequeño, una pequeña cantidad de algo, nombres de hombre

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ceton, a little bit of…, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ceton

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Un Poquito

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 827v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=729&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

This manuscript is hosted by the Library of Congress and the World Digital Library; used here with the Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SAq 3.0).

Orthography: 
"çe" for ce
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tepiton (MH506r)

Tepitz (MH737v)