Tetlacuilol (MH535r)

Tetlacuilol (MH535r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, a short version of tetlacuilolli, refering to a stone carving. This is attested here as a name held by a man. It shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with curly ends and, where there are usually alternating diagonal lines in opposing colors, there is a thick, black, diagonal line with white circles. On either side of this one thick line is a thin black line. This appears to refer to something written or a carved design (tlacuilolli) on the stone.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

We have another example of the name or occupation, Tetlacuilolli, that shows a stone with an object to its left, something with an elaborate design. Another Tetlacuilolli glyph involves the base of a column that has been carved in stone, suggesting that stone carving is like other activities where action is taken on a substance. Sometimes the "cuil" root is involved in agriculture, too.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

petro.tetlacuillol

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tetlacuilol

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:

cuil (tracking)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rubber

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

stones, piedras, designs, diseños, carved, labrado

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), rock, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
tlacuilol(li), painting; design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Diseño en Piedra

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=149&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).

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