Tetl Iacon (MH577v)

Tetl Iacon (MH577v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetl Iacon (“His Stone Water Jug,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a horizontal stone (tetl) with curling ends. This has been merged with a water jug (acomitl)]. The neck of the jug is flared, and it is decorated with two thin stripes. A third person singular possessive pronoun (I-) is a part of the gloss, and it relates to possessing the jug, but it is not visible.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā. tetli acon

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tetl Iacon

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:

Beverages

Ceramics, Pottery

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

horizontal

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

stones, piedras, jugs, jarras, water, agua, cantaros

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
acom(itl), water jug, ttps://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acomitl
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
com(itl), jug or pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
i-, his-her-its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Jarra de Piedra Para Agua

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 577v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=234&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: