Xoctepi (MH681r)

Xoctepi (MH681r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xoctepi (or Xoctepih, perhaps “Little Jug”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a small (-tepiton or -tepito) ceramic jug or pitcher (xoctli). The diminutive may be a phonetic indicator for -tepi, which can be a name for an older sister or a servant. It is also interesting how the -tepiton suffix can be shortened to -em>-tepito or even -tepi. See the Tlaltepi glyph, below. Perhaps the -xoc part of the name here refers metaphorically to a rounded belly. If so, then this compound, if we can call it that, could be fully phonetic.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Pottery, Earthenware
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diminutive (visual)
frontal view
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

pots, pitchers, ollas, small, pequeñas, pequeños, cerámica, olla pequeña, hermana mayor, nombres de mujeres, women's names, fonetismo, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

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

xoc(tli), a ceramic pot or vessel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoctli
tepiton, small, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepiton-0
tepi, little; a servant; an older sister; or, a personal name, 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 681r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=442&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: 

Xoctepi (MH622r)

Tlaltepi (MH506r)

Xoctepi (MH895v)

comitl (TK214v)