Totepeuh (MH881r)

Totepeuh (MH881r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Totepeuh (“Our Mountain” or “Our Hill”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows simply a smooth, bell-shaped mound in a frontal view. It has none of the hallmarks of earlier tepetl glyphs, and it does not have shading or three-dimensionality. All of these types of tepetl glyphs can be found in this collection.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

toribio totepeuh

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Totepeuh

Gloss 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)
possessive pronoun (no-, to-, i-, etc.)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
Keywords: 

cerros, montañas, posesivo, nuestro, nombres de hombres

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

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
to- (first-person plural possessive), our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Nuestra Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 881r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=834&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: 

tepetl (Mdz51r)

tepetl (Chav4)

Itztepetl (MH794v)