Tecolol (MH504r)

Tecolol (MH504r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the personal name Tecolol ("Stone Arch," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a stone arch (tecololli) with large, cut stones and a smaller one at the top and center. The entry way is shaded to look dark, as though open but leading to a dark interior.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The shading suggests European artistic influence. Juan José Batalla points out how a curving arched doorway, sometimes called tecololli in Nahuatl (and notes how perhaps tolcalli would be more appropriate), is a European architectural introduction. See: "Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental en los glifos de los códices coloniales del Centro de México: el caso de los antropónimos nahuas," in El arte de escribir. El Centro de México: del Posclásico al siglo XVII, eds. Juan José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio (Zinacantepec, Estado de México: El Colegio Mexiquense, A. C., 2018), 84.]

Below, see another stone arch (but with a somewhat different name) and a triangular arch.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
tecolol

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Juan Tecolol

Gloss/Text 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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
elevation view
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
U-shapes (any direction)
Number of Parts, Other / Comment: 

This could be considered a compound if we count the stones [te(tl)] and the arching shape [colol(li)] as two separate (although merged) elements.

Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

arches, arcos, stones, piedras, nombres de hombres, men's names

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

tecolol(li), stone arch, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecololli
coltic, curved, bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arco de Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 504r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=87&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: 

Toltecolol (MH499r)

tenexcalli (MH487v)

Tecolol (MH770r)