Tepehuilan (MH497v)

Tepehuilan (MH497v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tepehuilan (“Dragged Mountain,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a mountain or hill (tepetl) with a cord in front of it of the type used to drag heavy things, such as beams.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro
tepehuilan

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tepehuilan

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

twisted or entwined

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

back to front

Keywords:

cordones, ropes, hills, mountains, cerros, montañas, arrastrar, gatear

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
huila, a handicapped person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huila
huilana, to go along dragging or crawling on all fours, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana
huilan(tli), someone who is handicapped or who crawls, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilantli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 497v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=74&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: