De Guevara (MH737r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name de Guevara is attested here as the name of an elite man, a tecuhtli, judging by the diadem that lords would wear and given his placement within a building. The glyph is a horizontal stone (tetl) with contrasting, alternating stripes, and curling ends. There is a wormhole at the right end. The tetl provides the phonetic indication for the start of the name, de. The Guevara part of the name is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
The origin of this Spanish name, de Guevara, is unclear, but there was a Felipe de Guevara, who wrote the Comentarios de la Pintura in the 1550s or 1560s, which discusses Nahuatl hieroglyphics. See: Juan Allende-Salazar, “Don Felipe de Guevara, coleccionista y escritor de arte del siglo XVI,” Archivo Español de Arte e Arqueología I (1925), 189-192. But, often, Nahua lords who took Spanish names often got them from powerful conquistadores, local encomenderos, or friars with a special interest in Nahuas and Nahuatl.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
piedras, nombres de hombres, nombres españoles, nombres prestados
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
de Guevara
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 737r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=552&st=image
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