Tetzpan (MH673r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetzpan shows a frontal view of a horizontal stone (tetl) with its classic, alternating, diagonal stripes and curling ends. The stone provides the phonetic start to the name, Te-. Above the stone is a rectangular, vertical flag (panitl) on a staff. Often the panitl is meant to provide a phonetic syllable such as -pan (on). The flag flies toward the viewer’s right. The meaning of this compound requires further investigation, as the tetz- part of the name is elusive.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
flags, banderas, obsidiana, cuchillos, pedernales, gente, pueblo, posesivo, nombres de hombres
te- (impersonal possessor suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
itz(tli), obsidian knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
pan(itl), flag or furrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pantli
Bandera de la Gente, Hecha de Obsidiana (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 673r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=426&st=image.
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