Tenexcalco (MH779v)

Tenexcalco (MH779v)
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:

The phrase captured with the gloss field refers to a solar (lot) or solares, which could refer to the house lots of the inhabitants of the barrio or perhaps a lot where lime kilns are located.

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.]

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

tenescalco pouh Sulal ynpan cate

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Tenexcalco pouh solar inpan cateh

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

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

barrios, pueblos, cal, arquitectura, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tenexcal(li), lime kiln, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tenexcalli
-co (locative suffix), at, or in, 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 779v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=633&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).

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