tecpanpixque (MH643r)

tecpanpixque (MH643r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the occupation of tecpanpixque (guardians of twenty tribute payers, shows a vertical, rectangular, white flag (panitl), three stones (tetl) with their usual, alternating light and dark stripes, and their curly ends. The stones stacked vertically. There is a bell (coyolli) at the bottom. The flag and stones provide phonetic indicators for the start of the word (tecpan-).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

What is not clear is how the bell stands for the second part of the word (-pixqui), or perhaps it has a semantic value. Perhaps the guardian holds up flag and/or rings a bell when he is making a call for the collection of tribute.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tepanpixgue

Gloss Normalization:

tecpanpixque

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:

phonetic dimensions

numbers

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Numbers, Math

Occupations

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Keywords:

campanas, campanillas, banderas, piedras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpanpixqui, guardian of twenty (tribute payers), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanpixqui
centecpanpixqui, a guardian of twenty (tribute payers), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centecpanpixqui
pam(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
coyol(li), bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

guardián de veinte tributarios (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=368&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

dropped "c"

Historical Contextualizing Image: