Tepantemoc (MH813r)

Tepantemoc (MH813r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepantemoc (“He Descended Over Someone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two naked men in profile view, one lying face down and the other sitting on his back, looking toward the viewer’s left. The seated man is bald, and the prone man has hair on his head.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Nudity might be an expression of vulnerability. This has yet to be studied in full. This drawing could also have a sexual dimension, but it is not clear. A few of the rare glyphs or examples of iconography that relate to sexual practice appear below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Nudity

Sexuality, Fertility

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing downward

profile view

facing left

Keywords:

desnudez, calvo, calvicie, adverbios, verbos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepan, over someone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepan
temo, to go down, descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Descendió Sobre Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 813r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=700&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: