Tetepan (MH544v)

Tetepan (MH544v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetepan (“Walls,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a rectangular wall with three layers of staggered adobe bricks or stone blocks. At the top, in the middle of the wall, is an upright flag blowing toward the viewer's right.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan tetepā

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tetepan

Gloss Analysis, 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: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Flags, banners
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: 
facing right
horizontal
frontal view
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

walls, muros, cercas, flags, banderas

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

tepan(tli), wall, construction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepantli
pan(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
reduplication-text

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 544v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=168&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: 

tepantli (Mdz27r)

Xipal (MH632r)