Tetepon (MH616v)

Tetepon (MH616v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tetepon is attested here as a man's name. While the noun tetepontli typically refers to the knee or lower leg of an animal, this glyph emphasizes an animal claw with sharp nails.

Description, 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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals: Misc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
gray
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
Keywords: 

animales, garras, uñas, piernas, pies, nombres de hombres

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

tetepon(tli), knee or lower leg (often of an animal), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetepontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la garra de un animal

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 616v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=315&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: 

choloa (Mdz42r)

chapolicxitl (Mdz8r)