Tecpanecatl (MH486v)

Tecpanecatl (MH486v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name or title Tecpanecatl shows a vertical, red-and-white tecpatl (flint knife), a near homophone and therefore perhaps a phonetic indicators for Tecpan-. A horizontal shape appears below the flint knife, perhaps a base for keeping it upright.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A range of examples of glyphs for Tecpanecatl appear below. Most include a cuauhtecpantli (fence, grill) shape. A few also include ropes (mecatl). This one, which employs the tecpatl, is somewhat unusual in comparison.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro tecpanecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tecpanecatl

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:

homophony, rebus

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

títulos, palacios, navajas, cuchillos, obsidiana

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tecpanecatl, a name and a title, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanecatl
tecpan, a ruler's palace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpan
tecpancal(li), a palace or a royal home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpancalli
-ecatl (affiliation suffix), typically added to a place ending in -pan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0
tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Título u Oficio en el Palacio

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=52&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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