Contecatl (MH691r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Contecatl (“Person from Contlan”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a ceramic jug (comitl). It has a flared neck and at least three handles. This jug a semantic indicator that the place name from which this ethnic name derives starts with Con- (short for comitl). A Contecatl is someone from Contlan, meaning “Near the Ceramics.”

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

One other glyph for Contecatl appears below. That one has an added element, the cuauhtecpantli, which does not seem to have either a phonetic or a semantic contribution.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

di^o contecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Contecatl

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:

Ceramics, Pottery

Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

pueblos, etnicidades, cerámica, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teca, to lay out, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teca
com(itl), ceramic pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
-teca (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teca-0

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 691r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=462&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:

Contecatl (MH691r)

Contecatl (MH691r)

Contecatl (MH744v)