Tecuecuex (MH839v)

Tecuecuex (MH839v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecuecuex (“Ankle Adornment for Dancing”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a lower leg with a horizontal stone (tetl) at the site of the ankle in a phonographic and semantic reference to the tecuecuextli (beads or bells tied around the ankle for dancing). The stone has the usual curling ends and the dark and light diagonal lines in the middle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

What dancers wear on their ankles can apparently vary somewhat, as shown by the Tecuecuex and Cuecuex glyphs here and below. The Xocoyol glyph from the Codex Mendoza offers exceptional clarity and color, showcasing a golden bell with a red tie over a dancer’s ankle.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

di^o. tecuecues

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Tecuecuex

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 of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

bailar, cuentas, campanillas, tobillo nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecuecuex(tli), beads or bells tied around the ankle for dancing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuecuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tobillera para la Danza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 839v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=753&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:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: