Tenexcalatl (MH782r)

Tenexcalatl (MH782r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tenexcalatl (“Lime Kiln Water”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a lime kiln (tenexcalli) made from adobe bricks or cut stone, with a dark oval opening at the top, which is wider than the base. At the bottom of the kiln is a dark arching door. Coming out of the front of the kiln are two small streams of water (atl), each one with a line of current down the middle and a droplet at the end.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a curious name, given that the water coming out of a lime kiln might be considered waste water. Perhaps the meaning is not literal. The kiln looks much like several glyphs featuring such constructions, which produced the material that was used to stucco buildings.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

doribio . tenescalatl

Gloss Normalization:

Toribio Tenexcalatl

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)

visual movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Keywords:

estuco, cal, edificios, arquitectura, agua, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tenexcal(li), lime kiln, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenexcalli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Agua del Horno de Cal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 782r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=638&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:

"d" for t

"s" for x

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: