Tencol (MH649r)

Tencol (MH649r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tencol (perhaps "Hare Lip" or "Chin Strap of Valor") appears here as a man's name. It is a figure eight outlined in black and painted red. Typically this name appears in association with lips (tentli), but here it is just something twisted (colli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If the "n" is intrusive, the name could be Tecol, which would mean Grandfather or Ancestor. But it may be more likely that this is Tencol, perhaps a person with a hare lip or someone who wears a special chin strap. The spelling of Tencol is fairly uniform across this collection, and most examples do seem to point to the lips, while this one is more of a figure 8 or a backwards S-shape.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco tencol

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Tencol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Anatomy, human body parts
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
S-shapes (any direction)
twisted or entwined
bent
frontal view
Keywords: 

labios, algo torcido, hare lip, cleft palate, paladar hendido, labio leporino, nombres de hombres

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

ten(tli), lip(s), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli
col(li), something bent or twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli
tecol, grandfather or ancestor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecol

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Labio Torcido (o Liebre, Leporino)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 649r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=380&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 (MH543r)

Tencol (MH571r)

Tencol (MH679r)