Tetepo (MH758v)

Description: This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph of the personal name Tetepo, is attested here as a man's name. The glyph is the claw of an animal or perhaps an eagle, with a gray wash, black spots, and three sharp talons. The meaning of Tetepo has yet to be fully discerned. But there is an eagle claw design for war shields that is called the cuauhtetepoyo design, a term that has something in common with this name and its glyph. Another term that is close to this name is xotetepol, which means to be lame in both feet. Perhaps the -tetepo part is what refers to being lame (with the final -l having dropped away inadvertently?), because xo- has to do with feet. Once the translation of the name is clearer, it will be easier to determine if the claw foot has a phonetic or a semantic role.