Tetena (MH686r)

Tetena (MH686r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tetena (perhaps short for tetenatic, “Sharp on Both Sides,” attested here as a man’s name) shows what appears to be a horizontal row of four stones with diagonal stripes. Below these stones is a suggestion of four more stones, but these are not striped.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In the Florentine Codex, there is a phrase “tenatic, tetenatic” referring to obsidian. Here’s the translation in Spanish for the fuller passage: “la obsidiana en lascas es de doble filo, muy aguda, ambos bordes afilados.”

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pablo tetena

Gloss Normalization: 

Pablo Tetena

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adjective
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: 
horizontal
scalloped edges
striped
Keywords: 

bordes afilados, piedras, agudos, nombres de hombres

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

tetenatic, sharp on both sides, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetenatic
tene, sharp, with a cutting edge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tene

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

afilado en ambos lados

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=452&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: 
See Also: 

Nauhtene (MH674r)