Tenexcalco (MH777v)

Tenexcalco (MH777v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tenexcalco ("At the Lime Kiln") shows a frontal view of a circular, bucket-shaped lime kiln. It is made of stone or adobe bricks that are stacked in a standard "running bond" pattern (in European masonry terms). A small, open, black, arching doorway appears at ground level. The top is wider than the base. The top has an oval opening, either shaded or with a mesh covering it.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Juan José Batalla points out how the curving arched doorway, sometimes called tecololli in Nahuatl (and notes how perhaps tolcalli would be more appropriate), is a European architectural introduction. See: "Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental en los glifos de los códices coloniales del Centro de México: el caso de los antropónimos nahuas," in El arte de escribir. El Centro de México: del Posclásico al siglo XVII, eds. Juan José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio (Zinacantepec, Estado de México: El Colegio Mexiquense, A. C., 2018), 84.]

See other examples for lime kilns and for lime itself, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

tenexgalco

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Tenexcalco

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

segmented

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

arquitectura, tecnología, cal, nombres de lugares, topónimos, barrios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tenexcal(li), lime kiln, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenexcalli
-co (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Lugar del Horno de Cal

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 777v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=629&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:

"b" for p or f

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: