Cuauhtzontecon (MH623v)

Cuauhtzontecon (MH623v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtzontecon ("Eagle Head") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a man's head (cuaitl or tzontecomatl) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. On top of his head and almost joined with it is the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) also facing right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

In the Online Nahuatl Dictionary, under the term -tzontecon, there is a reference to a testator bequeathing a coyote head to his grandchildren in 1581 in Tlaxcala. A coyote head could be worn in dances, and likely also an eagle head. Note, for instance, the human head peering out from inside the head of an eagle in a pre-contact stone carving from the Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia (published by Mexicolore). A practically life-size statue of an eagle warrior in the Templo Mayor museum and published by Wikipedia also has a human head inside an eagle head.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luys
quauhtzōtecō

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Cuauhtzontecon

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Feathers

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

águilas, cabezas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tzontecoma(tl), head apart from the body, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontecomatl
-tzontecon, head (usually with a possessive pronoun first), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontecon
cua(itl), head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Águila-Cabeza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 623v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=328&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:

"q" for c

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: