Tetepon (MH758v)
Description: This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph of the personal name Tetepon, 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. 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.
Stephanie Wood
Tetepontli and cuauhtetepoyotl are nouns that show some recurrence in this collection, and the prevalence of claws in central Mesoamerican iconography is notable back to at least the Classic Period Teotihuacan.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
águilas, garras, cojo, pies, nombres de hombres

tetepon(tli), knee or lower leg (often of an animal), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetepontli
cuauhtetepoyo, having an eagle claw design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtetepoyo
xotetepol, lame in both feet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xotetepol
possiblemente Garra de Águila, o Cojo?
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 758v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=595&st=image
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