Tecpatl (MH628v)

Tecpatl (MH628v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the personal name Tecpatl ("Flint Knife," attested here as a man's name) shows an upright flint knife on a small horizontal pedestal. The knife has curving diagonal lines in the middle, reminiscent of the glyph for stone (tetl), providing both a phonetic and a semantic indicator, given that the flint is a type of stone and it begins with te-.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tecpatl is a day name in the religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli, and children born on that day could be given this name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo
tecpatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tecpatl

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: 
calendrics
day name
year name
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
vertical, upright
wavy
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

iyetl, cigar maker, tobacco, stone, piedra, obsidiana, oficios, occupations, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
iye(tl), tobacco, incense, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iyetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pedernal

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 628v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=339&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: 
See Also: 

tecpatl (Mdz8r)

tetl (Mdz50r)

iyetl (Mdz12r)

Cetecpa (MH658r)