Tenoch (MH658v)

Tenoch (MH658v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tenoch. The glyph is composed of two principal elements, a stone (tetl) and a portion of a prickly pear cactus with a flowering fruit (nochtli) on top. The stone has the usual horizontal shape with curly ends and alternating dark and light stripes. This is the usual compound glyph for the name of Tenochtitlan, the capital city, but also the glyph for the name of the legendary founder and ruler, Tenoch.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po. tenoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tenoch

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Politics, Power, Governance
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

nombres de hombres, nombres honoríficos, nombres de personas famosas, nopales, cactos, tunas

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
noch(tli), prickly pear cactus fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nochtli
Tenoch, a person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenoch

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Tenoch (nombre de un fundador de Tenochtitlan)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=397&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: 

Tenoch (Mdz2r)

Tenoch (MH898r)

Tenoch (Mdz2r)