Axayacatl (TR34v)

Axayacatl (TR34v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound hieroglyph for the personal name Axayacatl, held by a late fifteenth-century Mexica ruler known for imperial expansion, shows the head of a man in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. His eye is open. Running down his face is a stream of water with five short sprays, each one with either a droplet or a turbinate shell at the tip. The water is painted the usual color of turquoise blue.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The Spanish-language gloss was written in two hands, with the reverential suffix (-tzin) added to the name at a later point along with the translation "Face of Water." The contextualizing image shows the rulers seated on a petlatl and icpalli, symbols of his rule. His knees are up, and he is covered with a cape having a red and blue-trimmed diamond shape on his back and the same red and blue trim where the cape meets his feet.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Axayacantzin
caradel
agua

Gloss Normalization: 

Axayacatzin, cara del agua

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
facing right
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
profile view
striped
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

Axayacatzin, gobernante, tecuhtli, tecutli, teuctli, tlahtoani, tlatoani

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
xayaca(tl), face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xayacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Agua-Cara (o Cara del Agua)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 34 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f94.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Axayacatl (Mdz10r)

Axayacatl (Mdz19r)