Tzonton (MH666v)

Tzonton (MH666v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzonton (“Small Ponytail”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a cut-off clump of hair (tzontli) that has a band around it. The gloss suggests that it is a small (-ton) clump of hair.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Examples of men with clumps of bound hair appear below. These hairstyles can have associations with religious men and/or with warriors.

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)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tied, bound, or bundled
diminutive (visual)
frontal view
Keywords: 

pelo, cabello, atado, nombres de hombres

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

tzon(tli), hair, often a bound clump of hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
-ton (diminutive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ton

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Pequeña Cola de Caballo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=413&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: 

Cuatzon (MH628v)

Cuatzon (MH522V)

Temilo (MH513v)

Tlacatecatl (Mdz18r)