Tezon (MH498r)

Tezon (MH498r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tezon (here, attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a rock (tetl) with somewhat unusual markings that probably indicate a tezontli stone (which is a porous volcanic rock). The tetl glyph typically has curly ends such as these, but it also has diagonal, wavy, alternating lines across the main part of the rock. This stone has two somewhat long, diagonal lines, but also eight or more thin vertical lines in the lower right quarter.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Why a Nahua man would have a name relating stones may have something to do with the significance of the metaphor, in tetl in cuahuitl (the stone, the wood), which the friars (such as Sahagún, Book 6) described as having an association with knowing secret things.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

nicolas
teçō

Gloss Normalization: 

Nicolás Tezon

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Keywords: 

stones, rocks, volcanic, piedras volcánicas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Piedra Volcánica Porosa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&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).

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