Teconal (MH782r)

Teconal (MH782r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps the man who received this name as a baby was small and round like a piece of charcoal, or perhaps he had dark skin. Personal names often have a cultural meaning that can be lost on other observers, but they might also have a universal human reading. The other example of the name Teconal, below, is more rounded.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dieo. teconal

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Teconal

Gloss 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: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diamond shape(s)
frontal view
Keywords: 

carbón, color negro, nombres de hombres

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

teconal(li), coal or charcoal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teconalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Carbón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 782r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=638&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: 

Teconal (MH536r)

Tlechi (MH828v)