Teocuitlahua (MH573v)

Teocuitlahua (MH573v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Teocuitlahua (“He Has Gold,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a circle with a tiny concentric circle in the middle and short lines emerging from the perimeter of the top half of the larger circle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Teocuitlatl is the word for gold, and -hua refers to possession. What is not clear is how the glyph represents these elements. The glyph for gold in the Codex Mendoza is much more traditional than this one. We do see the iconographic example of gold beads, so perhaps the glyph here is of a gold bead. Perhaps the short lines suggest shimmer.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā teocuitlaua

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Teocuitlahua

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Money, Coins, Prices

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

shimmer, vibrance, shine with warmth & movement

spiky

Keywords:

gold, oro

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teocuitla(tl), gold, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocuitlatl
-hua, possession, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 573v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=226&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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