Tequicen (MH618r)

Tequicen (MH618r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tequicen is attested here as a man's name.

Description, 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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
segmented
frontal view
hash marks (maize connection)
Keywords: 

maíz seca, mazorca seca, cortar, verbo, centli, cintli, nombres de hombres

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

tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
cin(tli), dried corn on the cob, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cintli
cen(tli), dried corn on the cob, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Mazorca Seca

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 618r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=318&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: 

cintli (Mdz34r)

cintli (Mdz49r)

cintli (MH537v)