Teoton (MH836v)

Teoton (MH836v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teoton ("Little Deity," attested here as a man's name) shows a female figurine that is reminiscent of the nenetl, which can be an image of a deity (teotl). This figurine is clearly female, with uncovered breasts and two protruding groups of hair on top of her head, recalling the neaxtlahualli hairstyle of married Nahua women. The -tontli (diminutive suffix) is not necessarily expressed visually here.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Sometimes the protrusions on the top of the nenetl glyphs are squared off, unlike this one, which looks more like the neaxtlahualli than the protrusions on the female raddle dolls that were made in ceramic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

teoto

Gloss Normalization: 

Teoton

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: 
adjective
diminutive (in gloss/text)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Toys
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diminutive (visual)
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

teo(tl), a divine or sacred force; a deity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
-ton-, little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ton
neaxtlahual(li), a hairstyle for women, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neaxtlahualli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 836v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=747&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: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

teotl (MH619v)

Cihuateotl (MH579r)

cihuapilli (FCbk1p33)

Nenetl (MH632r)