Tepitz (MH737v)

Tepitz (MH737v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepitz (perhaps “Little One”) is attested here as man’s name. The glyph is just a stone (tetl), which provides the phonetic indication for the start of the name, Te-. The -pitz is either not shown visually, or the stone is meant to be taken as small, pointing to tepitzin (a little bit).

Description, 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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Keywords: 

piedras, cosas pequeñas, un poquito, nombres de hombres

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

tepitzin, a little bit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepitzin
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Pequeñito

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 737v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=553&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: 

Tenton (MH643r)

Tenton (MH526v)

tepiton (MH506r)