Tehuilan (MH570v)

Tehuilan (MH570v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tehuilan (perhaps "Stone Dragger," here attested as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a stone or rock (tetl) with (with the usual curling ends and diagonal lines). There is a rope hanging down from it and attached for dragging it (tlahuilana). But, if the tetl is a phonetic indicator, and the te- is the nonspecific human object prefix, referring to people in general, then perhaps the name Tehuilan is a compound that refers to (metaphorically?) pulling people along.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This kind of activity might be likely to take place at a construction site or for moving heavy things to a construction site.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego tehuilla

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Tehuilan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Rope, cord
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

stone, piedras, drag, arrastrar, nombres de hombres

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

huilana, to drag something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huilana
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arrastrador de Piedras

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 570v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=220&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).

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