Techan (MH651r)

Techan (MH651r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techan ("Stone Home," or "Someone's Home") is attested here as a man's name. A horizontal stone (tetl) with a black diagonal stripe and small circles at its ends provides the phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-. The -chan part of the name is derived semantically from the small building in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The building is implied to be a home (-chan), even though it also looks like a calli, house or generic building, with its red T-shaped beams at the entrance.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The circles on the three visible corners of the stone are reminiscent of the shimmer given to the chalchihuitl stone or the mirror, etc. The tetl usually just have curly ends.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

matheo techan

Gloss Normalization: 

Mateo Techan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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 logographic
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
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
facing right
frontal view
profile view
rectangular
right angle(s)
shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
T-shapes
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
right to left
Keywords: 

casas, edificios, piedras, nombres de hombres

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hogar de Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=384&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).

Orthography: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Techan (MH525v)

Techan (MH834v)