Tetepon (MH758v)

Tetepon (MH758v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Birds
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
3/4 view
dotted, granular, textured
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

águilas, garras, cojo, 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
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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

possiblemente Garra de Águila, o Cojo?

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 758v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=595&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: 

cuauhtetepoyo (Mdz65r)

cuauhtetepoyo (Mdz20v)

Cuauhizte (MH809r)

Iztitlan (Mdz16v)

Totolmetz (MH672v)

Coyometz (MH884r)