Xoctepi (MH622r)

Xoctepi (MH622r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Xoctepi (or Xoctepih, "Little Pot"), attested here as male, shows a small ceramic pitcher, pot, or jug (xoctli). We are considering the small size (-tepiton or -tepito) as coming into play as a visual diminutive and contributing to the compound hieroglyph as -tepi. It could be that this small jug is a reference to the body of the boy when he was born (round bellied, perhaps). If so, then the glyph is not literal, but phonetic.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Across multiple manuscripts, a much more common word for a ceramic jug is comitl, especially given its role in standing for the phonetic syllable, -co. The -tepi ending to this name appears to be an apocapated version of -tepito or -tepiton. Just -tepi can also refer to an older sister or a servant, but the diminutive seems to work better.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Domingo
xoctepih

Gloss Normalization: 

Domingo Xoctepi (or Xoctepih)

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
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
diminutive (visual)
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

pots, jugs, pitchers, ollas, jarras, small, pequeñas, pequeños, nombres de hombres

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

xoc(tli), jug, jar, pot, vessel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoctli
-tepiton, small, a little bit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepiton
-tepi, small or little, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Olla Pequeña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 622r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=326&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: 

comitl (Mdz13v)

comitl (MH484r)

comitl (TR26v)

comitl (Verg6v)

Xoctepi (MH681r)