Tzonpi (MH497r)

Tzonpi (MH497r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tzonpi (“He Pulls Hair,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a hand grasping a large lock of hair. The verb pi, to pull hair, combines with tzontli (hair).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Hair pulling was a major offense in Nahua culture. War captives are often shown in codices being held by their hair. The hair is also close to the location of one's tonalli, personal solar animating force (as Allison Caplan has translated it).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

antonio
tzonpin

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Tzonpi

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing left
profile view
twisted or entwined
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

hairstyles, hair wrapping, hair pulling, envoltura de cabello, jalando el pelo, jalar, pull

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

pi, to pull out hair or grasses, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pi
pintic, small and pointed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pintic
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli-1

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 497r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=73&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: 
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Quetzonpipique (MH567r)

Quetzon (MH518v)

Cuatzon (MH522V)

Cuatzontli (MH536r)

Cuatzon (MH615r)

Cuatzon (MH628v)