Tecpanecatl (MH785r)

Tecpanecatl (MH785r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tecpanecatl ("Person Associated with the Tecpancalli, or Palace") is attested here as a man's name. Alternatively, it could be an occupation. The components of the glyph have yet to be deciphered fully. They include what looks like a frontal view of a group of wooden posts--two upright and parallel. Another horizontal post links the two vertical ones, connecting them near the top. Behind this combination are two more posts in a V-shape, crossing the other three poles where they connect.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This name or title is not to be confused with the ethnic identity, Tepanecatl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o tecpanecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tecpanecatl

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

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

M-shapes

frontal view

rectangular

tied, bound, or bundled

triangular

V-shapes, or wedge

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, trabajador del palacio

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tecpanecatl, a person's name associated with the tecpancalli, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanecatl
Tepanecatl, an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepanecatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 785r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=644&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: