Tencol (MH543r)

Tencol (MH543r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Juan Tencol ("Warrior's Chin Strap") shows a coiling line coming from the head of a man that is shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. This seems to refer both to the lip (tentli) and something twisted (colli), providing the phonetic elements to the name, which is not meant to be literal, unless it refers to a hare lip.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If the "n" is intrusive, then the name could be Tecol, which could mean Grandfather or Ancestor.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā tencol

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Tencol (or Tecol)

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
curving, curvy, curved
profile view
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

lips, labios, espirales, coils, correas, barbillas, guerreros valientes, de hombres

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

ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
col(li), something bent or twisted, curled, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
col(li), grandfather, ancestor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli
tecol, grandfather, ancestor, great uncle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecol
tencol(li), a chin strap worn by the brave to show their courage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tencolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Correa para la Barbilla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 543r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=165&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: 

Tencol (MH520r)

Tencol (MH571r)

Tencol (MH649r)

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