Tenamic (MH871v)

Tenamic (MH871v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tenamic (perhaps “Someone’s Opponent”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two human figures facing each other and reach out to each other. The one on the left seems like a man. He is nude. The one on the right, possibly also male, consists of only a head and his left arm.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If this were a heterosexual couple, one would likely wear the neaxtlahualli women’s hairstyle, or else perhaps long loose hair over the shoulders. If the artist wished to make one of the figures female, a huipilli (blouse) or cueitl (skirt) could have been added easily.

Thus, in lieu of “spouse” perhaps this is a representation of two men as opponents in a game or enemies in a conflict.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

andres tenamic

Gloss Normalization: 

Andrés Tenamic

Gloss 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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Nudity
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

tenamic, someone’s spouse, buddy, enemy, or opponent in a game, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenamic
namic(tli), spouse, wife, husband, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/namictli
namiqui, to meet or find, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/namiqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Opositor en un Juego, o Enemigo en un Conflicto

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=815&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: 

Tlahuical (MH815v)