Temazcale (MH626r)

Temazcale (MH626r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Temazcale ("Possessor of a Steambath") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a frontal view of a building (calli) with four steam curls emerging from the front entrance (referring to the temaz- part of the name). The possessor suffix -e is not shown visually. The building may have a thatched roof, and it appears to be unusually wide compared to a house, probably making room for the fire inside.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Our Online Nahuatl Dictionary provides lots of examples of the uses of steambaths.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juan
temazcale

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Temazcale

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)

possessor suffix (-e)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Health, Medicine

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

thatched roof

volute(s)

Keywords:

fire, steam, fuego, vapor, humo, smoke, volutas, building, edificio, bañarse, lavarse, nombres de hombres, arquitectura

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

temazcal(li), sweat house or steambath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temazcalli
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-e (possessor suffix), he who has that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él que Tiene un Temascal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334st=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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