Tzoncol (MH486v)

Tzoncol (MH486v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tzoncol (here, attested as a man's name) shows a lock of hair or ponytail (tzontli) worn at the top of the head by warriors and priests. It has a bend (colli) to it, leaning toward the viewer's left.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name Tzoncol might have been a literal reference to a baby's curly hair, or, if it had another meaning, the compound could be fully phonetic.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco tzōcol

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Francisco Tzoncol

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
syllable: col (from colli or acolli)
syllable: tzo/tzon/tzom/zom (from tzontli, hair/head)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
diagonal or angled
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

hair, cabello, pelo, coletas, nombres de hombres, men's names

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

tzon(tli), a lock of hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
coltic, curved, bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
col(li), something bent or twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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: 

tzontli (Mdz48r)

tzontli (TR21r)

Cocol (MH515v)

Cocol (MH520v)

Quetzonpipique (MH567r)

chicuacolli (FCbk3f10v)