tetzotzonqui (MH594v)

tetzotzonqui (MH594v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the occupation of tetzotzonqui (mason) shows a hammer or hatchet hitting (tzotzona) a stone (tetl). The head of the hammer or hatchet is a stone caught between two branches on a stick. The stone has little chips out of it all around the perimeter, suggesting that it is being carved.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This occupational glyph is reminiscent of the glyph for the occupation of texinqui, stone carver.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tetzotzoqui

Gloss Normalization:

tetzotzonqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

verb

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Occupations

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bifurcated

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

masons, albañiles, stones, rocks, piedras, tools, herramientas, hammers, martillos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
tzotzona, to pound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzotzona
-qui, one who does that thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el cantero

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 594v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=268&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: