Motecuhzoma llhuicamina (TR34v)

Motecuhzoma llhuicamina (TR34v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex hieroglyph, showing a xiuhuitzolli or diadem, but usually simply representing the title "tecuhtli" (also spelled teuctli) for lord, or high noble, here stands for the name of the Mexica ruler Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina (meaning perhaps “The Lord Who Shows Himself Angry, Who Pierces the Sky with Arrows” (a translation from the work of Enrique Vela (Arqueología Mexicana, 2011). This was the elder Motecuhzoma. The glyph shows a profile view of a turquoise crown or diadem with red trim. It is facing toward the viewer's right, and it is tied at the back. This is a phonetic indicator for the middle syllables (-tecuh-) of the name Motecuhzoma; the Ilhuicamina part is not shown visually here. The gloss indicates that this is the elder (huehue) Motecuzoma.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The crown, called xiuhhuitzolli in Nahuatl, is often used as a semantic indicator simply to represent tecuhtli (also spelled teuctli) (lord). Apparently this one, however, has distinguishing features that set it apart from the usual triangular red crown.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

huehue moteuhczoma

Gloss Normalization:

Huehue Motecuhzoma

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)

tec, tecu, tecuhtli, or motecu (a diadem)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Leather, hides

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

blue (turquoise)

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

striped

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

diademas, nombres de hombres, personas famosas, tecuhtli, tecutli, teuctli, tlahtoani, tlatoani, crowns, coronas, diadems

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Motecuhzoma, ruler's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Motecuhzoma

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Motecuhzoma el Viejo

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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