Tetlacuilo (MH616r)

Tetlacuilo (MH616r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

Tetl and tlacuilo combine in the compound glyph to produce the name or occupation Tetlacuilo (perhaps "Stone Carver"). The glyph shows the base of a stone column. The base has designs carved into it. This is a personal name, and it is attested as a man's name, here.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See examples of Tetlacuilol, below. Those represent a short form of the noun tetlacuilolli, which seem to refer to the object that a stone carver would make.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

merchilor tetlacuailo

Gloss Normalization:

Melchor Tetlacuilo

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

piedras labradas, diseños, escrituras, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tlacuilol(li), a written or painted thing or a design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Piedra Labrada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 616r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=314&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).

Orthography:

"r" for l

intrusive "i"

intrusive "l"

Historical Contextualizing Image: