Tenton (MH526v)

Tenton (MH526v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tenton (“Little Lips,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a mouth with upper jaw and chin, in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. The word tentli is usually translated as lip or edge. The -ton suffix is a diminutive.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Given that the lip sign is not extra small compared to glyphs of tentli that do not have this diminutive suffix, the visual focus is on the anatomy.

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

martin.tentō.

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Martín Tenton

Gloss/Text 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
Syntax: 
diminutive (in gloss/text)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diminutive (visual)
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

mouths, bocas, lips, labios, small, pequeño

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

ten(tli), lip, mouth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
-tontli, diminutive, little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=132&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: 

tentli (Mdz51r)

tentli (Mdz17v)