Tepenahuacatl (MH486v)

Tepenahuacatl (MH486v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepenahuacatl ("Person from Tepenahuac," attested here as a man's name) shows a hill or mountain (tepetl). The hill has grasses and some shading on the left side. Nothing obvious in the image seems to point to -nahuacatl.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -nahuacatl may refer to a person from near (-nahuac). In another example of this name (below), speech scrolls (nahuatl) are likely used to provide the phonetic element -nahuac, near to. And the -catl is a suffix that points to an affiliation the person has with a place.

The tepetl "glyph" is verging on a landscape painting, suggesting European influence. See below for a more conventional tepetl glyph and a couple that are stylistically in between.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o tepenavacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tepenahuacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

shading and parallel line hatching

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

hills, mountains, pueblos, etnicidad, cerros, montañas, paisajes

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepetl, hill, mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
Nahuacatl, a famous name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(persona de Tepenahuac, o persona de cerca de la montaña)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=52&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).

Orthography:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: