Tecolol (MH770r)

Tecolol (MH770r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Toltecolol (here, attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a vertical, curving, stone arch with a blackened entryway. The arch is segmented by the stones.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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: 

bartasal tecolol

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Baltazar 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
frontal view
segmented
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

arcos, piedras, arquitectura, influencia europea, nombres de hombres

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 770r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=614&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: 
"l" for r or rr
"r" for l
"s" for z
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tecolol (MH658v)

Tecolol (MH504r)

Toltecolol (MH499r)

tenexcalli (MH487v)