Temoc (MH565r)

Temoc (MH565r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Temoc (“He Has Descended,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a quickly drawn, horizontal stone (tetl) with curling ends. Below the stone are two footprints heading downwards, suggesting the verb, to descend (temo). The final -c, says this is a preterit form, but it is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The stone is a phonetic commplement, adding the "te" (from tetl) to a logogram that already starts with "te" (temoc). Footprint glyphs have a wide range of translations. In this collection, so far, we can attest to yauh, xo, pano, -pan, paina, temo, nemi, quetza, otli, iyaquic hualiloti, huallauh, tepal, tetepotztoca, totoco, otlatoca, -tihui, and the vowel "o." Other research (Herrera et al, 2005, 64) points to additional terms, including: choloa, tlaloa, totoyoa, eco, aci, quiza, maxalihui, centlacxitl, and xocpalli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā. temoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Temoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
visible movement
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
horizontal
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

descend, bajar, huellas, footprints, stones, piedras

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

te(tl), stone/rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
temo, descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Bajó

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 565r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=209&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

temo (Mdz27r)

Temoc (MH493v)

Temoc (MH502r)

tetl (Mdz48r)

Temoc (MH653r)