Tepalcihuatl (MH492r)

Tepalcihuatl (MH492r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name of a woman, María Tepalcihuatl, simply shows a woman's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Her visible eye is open. Her hair comes to two points above her forehead in the neaxtlahualli style.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tepal can translate something like stranger or foreigner, but it also mean by, through, or for another person. So, this woman may have a name or a nickname as the woman who is a stranger or the woman who has some kind of relationship to someone else. Tepal is also found separated from the words it modifies, so the name may actually be Tepal Cihuatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

maria tepalçihuatl

Gloss Normalization: 

María Tepalcihuatl

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)
indefinite "te"
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (female)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
Keywords: 

women, mujeres, gender, género, names, nombres de mujeres

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

tepal, in relation to another person, or a foreigner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepal
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Extranjera(?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=63&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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