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: 

The translation requires further investigation, but it might be "Someone's Black Woman."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

maria tepalçihuatl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

María Tepalcihuatl

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: 
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, axtlacuilli

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

te-, someone's, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
pal(li), black, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/palli
tepal, possibly stranger or foreigner, or by or through someone else, 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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Topalcehual (Verg23r)