Techin (Verg14v)

Techin (Verg14v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techin (perhaps “Stone Enclosure” or "Stony Chinamitl," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a small, vertical stone (tetl) with the typically curling ends and stripes across the middle. Above that is the sign for the chiyantli phonetic syllable -chi- and two flames or corn plant stalks. Gordon Whittaker (2012, 133) identifies what he calls the "chia" sign in the Chipiltepec compound, and it seems to be the same one that appears here. The one he discusses is from the Codex Tepetlaoztoc, from the same general vicinity as the Codex Vergara.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The other example of Techin from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco included in this collection so far (May 2023) seems to have more of a chinamitl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

po.techin

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Pedro Techin

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

near Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Corn, Maize
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Food, Eating, Cooking
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
oval (see also leaf shaped)
spiky
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

fuego, flamas, elote, xilotl, cintli, centli, piedras, incendios, maíz, milpa

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

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
chin(amitl), a reed or cane fence or enclosure, https://nahuatl.wired-
techinami(tl), a stone fence or wall, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/techinamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Muro de Piedra, o Sementera Pedregosa (?)

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 14v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f36.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tequicen (MH537v)

Techin (Verg7r)

tletl (Mglb71r)