Teconal (MH536r)

Teconal (MH536r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teconal (“Charcoal,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a round piece of charcoal (teconalli). The charcoal is circular and completely painted black.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This charcoal glyph could be mistaken for the glyphs for the color name black, black ink, or a rubber ball. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juan.teconal

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Teconal

Gloss 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: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Rubber
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
Keywords: 

charcoal, carbón, black, negro

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

teconal(li), charcoal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teconalli
ol(li), rubber, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 536r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=151&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: 

Tlilhua (MH499v)

Tlilpotonqui (MH573v)

olli (Mdz37r)

olli (Mdz70r)