Teocaltitlan (MH622r)

Teocaltitlan (MH622r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black and white compound glyph for the place name Teocaltitlan shows a stepped pyramid with a thatched-roof building at the top. The architecture refers to a teocalli, or temple. The locative suffix with ligature (-titlan) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

teocaltitlan barrio

Gloss Normalization: 

Teocaltitlan, barrio

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: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Names (places)
Religion (Indigenous)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
elevation view
frontal view
pyramidal
stepped
Keywords: 

templos, temples, pirámides, casas religiosas, topóminos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

teocal(li), temple, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocalli
-titlan, (locative suffix), near, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cerca del Templo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 622r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=326st=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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

teocalli (TR41v)