Tepoz (MH486v)
This simplex glyph for the personal name Tepoz (from tepoztli, copper/metal) shows an axe head at an angle, leaning toward the right. The large edge is rounded. The narrow end has markings as though it is tied onto a handle, but the handle is not there.
Stephanie Wood
franco tepoz
Francisco Tepoz
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood
axes, hatchets, hachas, metales, cobre
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tepoz(tli), copper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoztli.
Cobre
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=ths53&st=image.
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