Tenancocol (MH875r)

Tenancocol (MH875r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tenancocol (perhaps literally, “Rampart-Quarrel”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a crenelated wall or rampart of the type that might run along the top of a building that is fortress-like, especially one of European design. Note the examples of tenamitl from the Codex Mendoza, below, from about two decades earlier than this one.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -cocol suffix is not represented visually in the hieroglyph, so it is not a compound. Perhaps it relates to the term for a quarrel (cocolli), but that remains to be verified.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

thomas tenācocol

Gloss Normalization:

Tomás Tenancocol

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Keywords:

paredes, cimientos, edificios, arquitectura, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tenan(tli), rampart or wall, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenantli
cocol(li), quarrel, anger, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

literalmente, Muralla-Disputa

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=822&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:

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: