Tzonpon (MH810r)

Tzonpon (MH810r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzonpon (perhaps a name for a medicinal plant) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal stem with three springs of leaves.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The final “n” might be intrusive. Either way, however, the name of this person is much shorter than the two dictionary terms that point to a medicinal plant.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tripartite
frontal view
Keywords: 

plantas medicinales, nombres de hombres

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

tzonpotonic, a medicinal plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzonpotonic
tzonpopoton, a medicinal plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzonpopoton

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(una planta medicinal)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=694&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: 

Cima (MH623r)

Ocoxochitl (MH778r)

aquiztli (CruzBad41v)

tzayanalquilitl (Mdz31r)