Techalotl (MH497v)

Techalotl (MH497v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techalotl ("Squirrel") is attested here as a man's name. An olli or olin glyph seems to have been drawn originally, but was then crossed out, and the animal was added. The head is shown in profile, on the right side of the mistaken glyph, and it is looking toward the viewer's left. It appears that a stone (tetl) was also added as a phonetic indicator that the name begins with Te-. It has the usual curling ends and a diagonal stripe across the middle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Calixto / techalotl

Gloss Normalization:

Calixto Techalotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

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:

circle, circular or rounded

facing left

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

techalo(tl), a squirrel-like animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/techalotl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 497v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=74&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: