Tecal (MH668r)

Tecal (MH668r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecal (or Tehcal, “Vaulted Stone House”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two horizontal stones (tetl), one above and one below the entryway to a building (calli) that is shown in a frontal view. Nearly the entire scene is enclosed with a rectangular line, but the line disappears behind the lower stone.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The elements offer phonetic indicators that this is a tecalli, a vaulted stone house. So, the compound is fully phonographic, even as the elements also make semantic contributions.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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 phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
rectangular
diagonal or angled
frontal view
horizontal
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Keywords: 

piedras, casas abovedadas, edificios, nombres de hombres

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
cal(li), house-building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
tecal(li), vaulted stone house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Casa Abovedada

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=416&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: 
See Also: 

Tecacalanco (MH514v)