Teton (MH593r)

Teton (MH593r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Teton (“Little Stone,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a primarily horizontal stone (tetl) in a diminutive size (-tontli). The stone has the usual curly ends, but the alternating diagonal stripes of light and dark do not appear in this case. Instead, there is some shading at one end and not at the other.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another man named Teton was a Nahua millenarian movement leader who arose in 1558 in the Mezquital Valley. This was when a binding of the years was expected, and the leader urged Nahuas to give up the new faith. [See the dissertation by Celso Armando Mendoza, UCLA, 2017, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2j51w72f.] Baltazar Teton was born long before Juan Teton became famous, so he is not likely named after him, unless he took the name for himself as an adult.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

bartasal teton

Gloss Normalization: 

Baltazar Teton

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: 
diminutive (in gloss/text)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
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: 
size (relative, intentional)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
shading and parallel line hatching
diminutive (visual)
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

stones, rocks, rocas, piedras, small, pequeñas

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
-ton(tli), smallness, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Piedra Chiquita

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 593r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=265&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).

Orthography: 
"l" for r
"s" for z
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tetl (Mdz48r)