Tenoch (MH658v)

Tenoch (MH658v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tenoch refers to a ruler who apparently founded and governed the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan (named in his honor). 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.

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)