Tecpanecatl (MH843r)

Tecpanecatl (MH843r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or title, Tecpanecatl (perhaps “Person Associated with the Tecpancalli, or Palace”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a curving, horizontal rope or cord (mecatl). This might be a phonetic indicator for the title, even though it ends with -necatl and not -mecatl (so only a near homophone). There is much to the name that is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The majority of Tecpanecatl glyphs build upon the sign for the cuauhtecpancalli (a wooden grill, fence, or the like), as suggested in a generous personal communication by Marc Thouvenot (30 September 2024). Some of these appear below. A few include a rope or cord (mecatl) in what appears to be phonetic complement, one features a tecpatl (flint knife) and one a tecpancalli (palace). Apparently, there was not just one uniform glyph for the title Tecpanecatl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

filipe tecpanecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe 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

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

twisted or entwined

Keywords:

sogas, títulos, oficios, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tecpanecatl, a name and a title, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanecatl
meca(tl), a rope or cord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mecatl
cuauhtecpan(tli), a wooden fence, grill, etc., https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtecpantli
tecpan, a ruler's palace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpan
-ecatl (affiliation suffix), typically added to a place ending in -pan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tecapanecatl (un título de honor u oficio)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 843r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=760&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).

Orthography:

"i" for e

Historical Contextualizing Image: