tecpancalli (MH515v)

tecpancalli (MH515v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph shows a ruling palace (tecpancalli). It is a frontal view of a building with a wide opening lined with red beams on the sides and across the top. (The red has a purple tone to it.) The bases of the two side beams are black. The roof is thatched and colored with some light yellow. The foundation appears to have two layers of wide bricks, probably adobe, but they could be stone.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The gloss clarifies the type of building. Comparing this tecpancalli to the tecpan in the Codex Mendoza, this one does not have the circles across the top of the building just be low the roof. Nor is a xiuhuitzolli diadem included as a clue that this building has an association with a tecuhtli (lord). The use of thatch is shown on at least two examples of teocalli in the Mendoza. See below. The use of stone blocks for the foundation would be an innovation that came with colonization. But with thatch, adobe may be more likely.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tecpancalli

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

Keywords:

buildings, edificios, palaces, palacios, gobierno

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpancal(li), ruler's palace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpancalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el palacio

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 515v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=110&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).

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