Tzintzon (MH660r)

Tzintzon (MH660r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tzintzon (“Buttocks Hair”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows the lower half of a man’s body–evident that this is male because of the belt of a loincloth being visible–and long black hairs come out from his rear end.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Nahua scribes were not shy about pointing to the rear end. Usually, this body part was used phonetically to supply the reverential suffix -tzin, nothing to do with anatomy. Here, however, and in the example of the name Miexqui (“Gassy One,” below), attention is drawn to the buttocks in a logographic way.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Dabiā. tzintzō

Gloss Normalization: 

Damián Tzintzon

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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

traseros, loincloth, pelos, nalgas, taparrabos, nombres de hombres

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

tzin(tli), buttocks, rear end, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzintli
tzon(tli), hair or head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pelo del Ano

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 660r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=400&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: 
"b" for m
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Miexqui (MH544v)