Tecpatzincatl (MH759r)

Tecpatzincatl (MH759r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecpatzincatl is attested here as a man's name, an ethnicity (someone from Tecpatzinco), or a person associated with a revered tecpan (palace). The gloss suggests Tecpatzincatl, with a root of tecpatl, obsidian knife. But the imagery suggests stone (tetl) for the phonetic start to the name, and a building with wooden beam framing that could convey palace (tecpan), which seems to play a homophonic role here.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luis.tecpatzincatl

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Tecpantzincatl

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:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

horizontal

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

piedras, edificios, casas de cabildo, etnicidades, pueblos, arquitectura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
tecpan, governing palace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpan
-tzin (reverential suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin
-catl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Tecpatzinco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=596&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: