Temol (MH639r)

Temol (MH639r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Temol (perhaps "Black Beetle") shows an upright stone with a curling top and diagonal stripes across its upper half. The lack of curling at the lower end to the stone, which is just rounded off, represents an effort to have the stone double as a beetle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The stone provides a phonetic indicator for the start of the name (Te-).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

temol

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Temol

Gloss/Text 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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Insects & Bugs
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
diagonal or angled
frontal view
oval (see also leaf shaped)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

temolin, escarabajo, bicho, beetles

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

temol(in), a black beetle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temolin

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=360st=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).

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