Tepozhuehue (MH554r)

Tepozhuehue (MH554r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepozhuehue (“Old Metal [Ax Blade],” attested here as a man’s name) shows a red (probably signifying copper, the original metal, tepoztli, used for this purpose) ax or hatchet blade. The blade is vertical, with the point at the bottom and the wide part at the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The adjective, "huehue," in this name suggests that this is an old-fashioned hatchet blade. After European colonization, hatchets changed. See a couple of examples, below.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luis tepozvevē

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Tepozhuehue

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

Syntax:

adjective

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Colors:

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

triangular

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

hachas, herramientas, tools, ax head, ax blade, cobre

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepoz(tli), ax, hatchet, copper, or metal object, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoztli
huehue, elder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huehue

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 554r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=187&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: