Tepetlaixco (MH659r)

Tepetlaixco (MH659r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name and probable ethnicity--being a place of origin, Tepetlaixco--is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows an obsidian blade (ixtli) standing in a ceramic pot (comitl). Together, these pieces represent the phonetic indicators for -ixco or -tlaixco, the locative suffix meaning on top of or in front of. This suffix is attached to the (not shown) hill or mountain (tepetl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph is somewhat reminiscent of the glyph for the occupation of tlama (healer, physician).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

place name

phonetic dimensions

personal name

Syntax:

adverb

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Ceramics, Pottery

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Names (places)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cerros, montañas, obsidiana, cerámica, jarra, vasija

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
tlaixco, on the surface or in front of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaixco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Encima de la Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 659r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=398&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: