Tetlacuilol (MH486v)

Tetlacuilol (MH486v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name (or occupation) Tetlacuilol (perhaps "Carved Stone") shows the base of a European-style, round stone column. It seems to have five layers at the base, and then the column arises from there, but the column is short, just a suggestion. The column is also not very wide in proportion to the base. Nothing is painted or shaded.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This type of architectural feature represents an introduction that came with colonialism. But there are various men in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco who seem to have learned the skill involved in carving these stones.

Interestingly, the use of "tetlacuilolli" (either a carved stone or a stone writing/painting/design) was applied to this architectural feature. A tlacuilolli could be a document, for instance, or a painting, but in this case it must refer to the design, the intense labor of working the stone (tetl).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo tetlacuillol

Gloss Normalization:

Matheo Tetlacuilol

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

vertical, upright

circle, circular or rounded

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

stone, piedra, labrar, carve, tallar, designs, diseños

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:

Piedra Labrada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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: