Cuatetl (MH633r)
This black line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuatetl (perhaps "Head of Stone") is attested here as a woman's name. It shows the head (cua-) of a woman in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Her face has wrinkles, which are likely a reference to her age. She has the classic Nahua woman's hairstyle (neaxtlahualli), with two points, one on either side of the forehead. Above the top or crown of her head sits a horizontal stone (tetl), with its classic diagonal lines in alternating colors, a light end and a dark end, and these ends each have a triad of curls.
Stephanie Wood
Cuatetl is still a Nahua name in use in Mexico today.
Stephanie Wood
anā
quatetl
Ana Cuatetl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
stones, piedras, heads, cabezas, peaks, picos, nombres de mujeres, viejas, viudas
cua, head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-2
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
Cabeza-Piedra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 633r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=348st=image.
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