Tepolo (MH672v)

Tepolo (MH672v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepolo (perhaps "He Defeated People in War") is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a hand grasping or some kind of material that resembles a mesh of grass or sticks. This visual seems to relate better to the verb, tzontepoloa (to gather or cut spikes by hand). If so, then this is a phonetic indicator for Tepolo (or Tepoloh, with the glottal stop).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The noun tzontli can also refer to hair, and perhaps the verb tzonpoloa can be a metaphor for the gathering of hair from the enemy in war.

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
hash marks (maize connection)
profile view
Keywords: 

manos, apartado, perdido, nombres de hombres

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

tepoloa, to defeat people in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoloa
tzontepoloa, to harvest or cut spikes by hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontepoloa
tzon(tli), hair or head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
tepolo (or tepoloh, showing the glottal stop), someone who is lost or separated, or a victor in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepolo
tepoloani, victor in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoloani
poloa, to destroy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poloa
te-, nonspecific human object prefix, people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Alguien Perdido, o Apartado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 672v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=425&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: 
"ll" for l
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tepoloa (MH549v)

poloa (Mdz13r)

Tlapopolo (MH515v)

Tlapolo (MH658v)

Nepolol (MH810v)