tepiton (MH506r)

tepiton (MH506r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white glyph of a small circle with dots in it is meant to represent the personal name Tepiton ("Little Bit," attested here as a man's name). The -ton suffix (a diminutive) doubles as the same glyph.

Description, 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: 
adjective
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
spotted or mottled
Keywords: 

poquito, pequeño

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

tepiton, a little bit, something little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepiton

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 506r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=91&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).

See Also: 

Tlaltepi (MH506r)