Tecolol (MH658v)

Tecolol (MH658v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecolol ("Stone Arch") shows an architectural arch that appears to have stone blocks. A simple line above the arch also appears.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The -col- root seems to have to do with things that are bent, twisted, rounded, or curving. See the dictionary suggestions provided to deepen our understanding of the root.

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.]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco. tecolol.

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Francisco 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

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
segmented
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

piedras, arcos, nombres de hombres, arquitectura

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

tecolol(li), a stone arch, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecololli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
coltic, curved, bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coltic
col(li), something bent or twisted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
coloa, to bend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coloa
colol(li), a trumpet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cololli
cololoa, to make into a ball, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cololoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arco de Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=397&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)

Tecolol (MH770r)