Temac (MH830v)

Temac (MH830v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Temac (“In Someone’s Hands””) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a large left hand of someone (te-) with a human head in the palm (-mac). It appears to be a man’s head, in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right and down somewhat.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a fairly rare name, with no other examples at the time this record is being made (January 2025).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

fraco temac

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Temac

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

manos, cuidar, nombres de hombres

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

te- (nonspecific human object prefix;), someone, people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
-mac, in the hands of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mac
ma(itl), hands, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En Las Manos de Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 830v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=735&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: 
See Also: 

Imac Tlacuiya (MH602r)

Temaca (MH747r)