Teoxoch (MH652v)

Teoxoch (MH652v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teoxoch ("Divine Flower") is attested here as a woman's name. It shows a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic Te- start to the name. This stone is typically dark at one end and light at the other, the two parts separated by a double diagonal line. This line has hash marks across it. The ends of the stone are curly. Above the stone is a tripartite flower. The petals of this flower are dark at the top and light at the bottom.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

agata teoxoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Ágata Teoxoch

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)
teo syllable (from tetl)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

flores, piedras, divinidad, nombres de mujeres

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

teo(tl), deity, divine force, divinity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teotl
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor Divina

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 652v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=387&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: 

Teoxoch (MH492r)

Teoxoch (MH524v)

Xochiteotl (MH500r)

Cihuateotl (MH579r)

Teoxoch (MH741v)