Techan (MH886r)

Techan (MH886r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Techan ("A Dwelling Place" or “Someone Else's Home," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a typical house (calli) or home (chantli). A profile of a face (facing right) appears inside the entrance to this building. This provides the visual for the Te- start to the name, which is a nonspecific object pronoun, saying “someone’s.”

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See other examples of glyphs for the name Techan, below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juo techan

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan 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: 
indefinite "te"
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
rectangular
Keywords: 

edificios, casas, hogares, arquitectura, nombres de hombres

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

techan, a dwelling place or someone else’s home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/techan
te- (nonspecific human object prefix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
chan(tli), home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lugar de Residencia, o el Hogar de Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=844&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: 

Techan (MH525v)

Techan (MH834v)

Techan (MH651r)