Tencol (MH679r)

Tencol (MH679r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tencol (“Warrior’s Chin Strap”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a stone (tetl), providing the phonetic indicator for the start of the name Ten-. This stone has the usual curling ends and light and dark diagonal stripes across the middle. Above the stone is a frontal view of half a man’s body, from the waist down. One of his legs looks twisted, serving as a phonetic indicator for colli (something twisted). If this name refers to the brave warrior’s chin strap (tencolli), then these two elements in the compound are both phonographic.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If the overbar indicating an “n” in the middle of the name is intrusive, and tecol (grandfather or ancestor) is what is meant, then this compound is still fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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 fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

piedras, piernas torcidas, nombres de hombres

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

tencol(li), a chin strap worn by the brave to show their courage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tencolli
ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
col(li), something bent or twisted, curled, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
col(li), grandfather, ancestor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli
tecol, grandfather, ancestor, great uncle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecol

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Correa Para la Barbilla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 679r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=438&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)

Tencol (MH571r)

Tencol (MH649r)