Tentocatl (MH814r)

Tentocatl (MH814r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tentocatl (which seems to refer to a type of spider) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a spider (tocatl), a bug, or an insect. Its head, which has two small antennae, is at the top. Six legs, three per side, curve upward.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See a glyph for the name Tocatl, below. That one looks more like a beetle. This one has the start to the name of Ten-, which might come from tentli, lips, although the lips of the creature are not notable.

Added Analysis, 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: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
facing upward
Keywords: 

insectos, arañas, bichos, labios, nombres de hombres

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

toca(tl), a spider, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tocatl
ten(tli), lip or lips, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, el nombre de alguna araña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 814r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=702&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: 

Tocatl (MH629r)