Tencol (MH571r)

Tencol (MH571r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Juan Tencol ("Warrior's Chin Strap") shows a coiling line coming from the tribute payer's own mouth. This seems to refer both to the lip/chin (tentli) and something twisted (colli), providing a semantic and a phonetic element to the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If the "n" was inadvertently dropped from the gloss, then the name could indeed be Tecol, which could mean Grandfather or Ancestor.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā tecol

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tencol (or perhaps Tecol)

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 possibilities
Syntax: 
col syllable (from colli)
noun(s)
visual sound
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition, Languages
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bent
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
volute(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

curving, bent, tíos abuelos, great uncles, lips, labios, curvados, curvos, torcidos, guerreros valientes, barbillas, correas, nombres de hombres

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

tecol, grandfather, ancestor, or great uncle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecol
tencol(li), a chin strap worn by the brave to show their courage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tencolli
col(li), curved or twisted thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
col(li), grandparent or ancestor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Correa de Barbilla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 571r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=221&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: 

Tencol (MH520r)

Tencol (MH543r)

Cocol (MH515v)

Cocol (MH520v)

Tencol (MH679r)