Tecpaxoch (MH632r)

Tecpaxoch (MH632r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecpaxoch ("Flint Knife-Flower") is attested here as a woman's name. The two elements are a flint knife (tecpatl) on a pedestal and, to the right of the knife and leaning out at an angle, a flower (xochitl) with three visible petals and a stem.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

maria
tecpaxoch

Gloss Normalization:

María Tecpaxoch

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (female)

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

leaf, marquise, pointed oval

frontal view

striped

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

flint, obsidiana, cuchillos, flores, nombres de mujeres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpa(tl), flint knife , https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pedernal-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=346&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: