Tecax (MH522r)

Tecax (MH522r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tecax ("Grinding Bowl," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a cross-sectioned stone trough and a grinding stone painted gray. The bowl has three small legs visible and a thick, U-shaped bowl. The pestle is relatively smaller, and it narrows at the top where someone would hold onto it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The word tecaxitl is a compound of stone (tetl) and vessel (caxitl). Another container for foods and beverages is the xicalli, which is usually made from a gourd. The "name" Tecax could possibly refer to the occupation of making or selling such grinding bowls or of doing the grinding. Alternately, there is also a name (possibly) called Tencax, bowl-lipped. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro tecax

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tecax

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
cross-sectioned object
frontal view
Keywords: 

recipiente, contenedor, cuenco, molcajetes, containers, vessels, bowls, grinding, moler, moliendo

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

tecax(itli), grinding bowl, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecaxitli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
caxi(tl), a vessel that holds liquids, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/caxitl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Molcajete

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 522r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=183&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: 

Tecaxic (Mdz15v)

Tecaxic (Mdz12r)

Tencax (MH604r)