Tepixqui (MH638r)

Tepixqui (MH638r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or occupation, Tepixqui (tribute collector), shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with the usual curling ends and alternating horizontal stripes of dark and light. The stone provides the phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-. The -pixqui part of the name, not shown visually, has the root "pia" (to have, keep, or guard), which refers to the collection of the tribute items in kind.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tepisgui.

Gloss Normalization: 

tepixqui

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Labor Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Religion (Indigenous)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Tributes, Taxation, Service
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
shading and parallel line hatching
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tepixqui, tribute collector, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepixqui
te(tl), stone, rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
pia, to have, guard, keep, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pia
pixqui, one who guards, keeps, has, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pixqui

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 638r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=358st=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: