Techan (MH525v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Techan (“Stone Home,” or perhaps "Someone's Home") is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of a typical house (calli) or home (chantli). In this case, the latter (-chan) is indicated by the gloss. The start to the name (Te-) possibly refers to the home being built of stone (tetl), but there are no obvious signs that say "stone." The building still has beams that seem to be of wood. The bottom part of each upright beam is painted black. If this is not a stone home, but "someone's home," then the Te- start to the name is the indefinite object.
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The frontal view and the painting of the lower ends of the beams may suggest some European influence in the stylistics of this glyph.
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pedro techa
Pedro Techan
Stephanie Wood
1560
hogares, gente, buildings, edificios, casas, homes, houses
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te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
El Hogar de Piedra
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=130&st=image.
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