Tepan (MH520r)
This compound glyph for the personal name (Toribio) Tepan shows a horizontal stone, with its hallmark curling ends and diagonal stripes, and a rectangular, vertical banner on a stick coming up from the rock. The banner is white. The stone is half red (or a dark pink). The stripe in the middle of the stone has diagonal hash marks across it.
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Tepan suggests a reading of Stone-Banner, but this could be a rebus for wall or boundary (tepantli).
Tepan is a Nahua personal name, preceded in the gloss by a Christian first name (Toribio). He may have been named after Toribio de Benavente, also known as Motolinia ("One Who is Poor or Afflicted"). This was the first word he learned in Nahuatl, and he went on to learn the language well. He lived in the monastery in Huejotzingo. Doing a quick search for the name "Toribio" will produce an impressive result.
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torio tepā
Toribio Tepan
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1560
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flags, banners, banderas, piedras, muros, cercas, linderos
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te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
pan(itl), flag/banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan, in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
tepan(tli), wall/fence or boundary, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepantli
Piedra-Bandera, o El Lindero, o El Muro
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&st=image.
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).
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