-teca (Verg10r)

-teca (Verg10r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element -teca (affiliation suffix) has been taken from the compound personal name or ethnicity glyph, Xochiteca (see below).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

near Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Syntax: 
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing left
frontal view
profile view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

-teca (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teca-0

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 10r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f27.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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See Also: 

Xochiteca (Verg10r)

-teca (Verg19r)

-teca (Verg11v)