Huacaltepec (Azca12)

Huacaltepec (Azca12)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the place name Huacaltepec includes various elements. Foremost is a carrying frame (huacalli). This has a wooden frame and net sides. The hill or mountain (tepetl) is surprisingly round, looking something more like a cave. It has rocky outcroppings on the top and sides. Below the huacalli, which is in front of the hill, is a red (leather?) horizontal tie. Below the tie is what may be a piece of cloth or clothing--white with red and white trim at the bottom (perhaps a skirt, cueitl). Finally, a spurt of water (atl) comes out to the right side and downward. The water may play a phonetic role, as there are two a's in the name huacalli.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

huacaltepec
mexica

Gloss Normalization:

Huacaltepec, Mexica [domain]

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Leather, hides

Names (places)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

checked, cross-hatched, or mesh

oval (see also leaf shaped)

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

tied, bound, or bundled

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

undetermined as yet

Keywords:

tecnología, cargar, redes, agua, hills, mountain, cerros, montañas, ropa, textiles, faldas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huacal(li), carrying frame, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huacalli
tepe(tl), hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-tepec, on the hill, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepec

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=12&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: