Tenpol (MH770r)

Tenpol (MH770r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tenpol is attested here as a man's name. It shows half a human face, drawing attention to the lip (tentli). Below the lower lip and protruding from it is an ornament (perhaps a tentetl or a tezacatl) that is a turquoise-blue. It curves up slightly into a point at the front.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The suffix -pol can mean large or wretched, and this could refer to the lips. But it is difficult to see a literal meaning here.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio tēpōl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tenpol

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
curving, curvy, curved
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

labios, feos, ornamentos, joyas, turquesa, nombres de hombres

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

ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
tezaca(tl), a lip plug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezacatl
-pol large or wretched, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pol

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Labios Desdichados

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 770r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=614&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).

Orthography: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tencax (MH604r)

Tezaca (MH626r)