Cuepon (MH725v)

Cuepon (MH725v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuepon (“She Blossomed”) shows a frontal view of a single, upright flower with three petals at the top, a three-part base, and one leaf on each side, right and left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Many flowers are portrayed with three upper petals in the glyphs that come from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, almost as though it was the generic way to draw a flower when attention to detail was not required.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
preterit tense
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
tripartite
Keywords: 

flores, florecer, nombres de mujeres

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

cueponi, to blossom, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueponi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Floreció

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=529&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
"l" for tl
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xochipan (MH525r)

Tecpaxoch (MH632r)