Tepoztli Icue (MH557v)

Tepoztli Icue (MH557v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tepoztli Icue (“His Skirt of Metal,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a shirt with what are apparently four wide blades of pointed metal. The line across the top of the four blades is straight or flat, and the points at the bottom of each blade have the look of an upside-down picket fence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Whether the Nahuas had something like this or adopted it from Europeans is unclear. But, the "metal skirt" was part of the suit of armor worn by the Spanish invaders in the early sixteenth-century. [See: H. Micheal Tarver and ‎Emily Slape, The Spanish Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2016, 205.[

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

alūsu tepuztlicue

Gloss Normalization:

Alonso Tepoztli Icue

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

metals, metales, cobre, skirts, faldas, posesivo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepoz(tli), copper, metal, axe, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoztli
i-, possessive pronoun
cue(itl), skirt, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cueitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Falda de Cobre

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 557v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=194&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: