Tetepontlil (MH613v)

Tetepontlil (MH613v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetepotlil (perhaps "Black Claw" is attested here as a man's name. It shows the paw of an animal, painted black (tlilli). The noun tetepontli usually refers to the lower leg of an animal, but here it seems to refer to a paw or claw.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

adjective

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Appearance

Color names

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sexuality, Fertility

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

frontal view

profile view

shading and parallel line hatching

spiky

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

fingers, dedos, stumpy, achaparrado, corto, color negro, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tetepon(tli), knee or lower leg (often of an animal), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetepontli
tlil(li), black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

[Dedos] Achaparrados y Negros

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309&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).

Orthography:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: