Temacehual (MH624v)

Temacehual (MH624v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Temacehual ("Someone's Vassal" or "Someone's Merit") is attested as a man's name. It shows a frontal view of an upright, right hand that is turned away from the viewer. The word for hand (maitl) could be providing the phonetic indication for a syllable in the middle of the name (-ma-). Surrounding the hand are dots, which remain undeciphered. Perhaps they are small stones (tetl), which could provide the phonetic start to the name (Te-).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Jacobo
temaceval

Gloss Normalization:

Jacobo Temacehual

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)

indefinite "te"

visual movement

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Labor Issues

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

vassals, vasallos, trabajadores, workers, field hands, peones, movimiento, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

temacehual, someone's vassal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temacehual

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Vasallo de Alguien

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 624v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=331&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: