texinqui (MH489r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the occupation of texinqui ("stone carver"or "sculptor"), here referring to the carving, cutting, or shaving (xima) of stone (tetl), shows the base of a stone column and a stone-cutting tool.
Stephanie Wood
This occupation of stone cutter is reminiscent of the glyph for tetzotzonqui, mason. The context here shows that this occupation is held by a man. This type of round column with a base such as is shown appears to be a Roman column (a "visual loan" of the type studied by Juan José Batalla, 2018, 85). For other examples, see the glyph for the personal names Tepiyaz and Temilo, below.
texingui
texinqui
Stephanie Wood
1560
José Aguayo-Barragán
tools, herramientas, columnas, piedras labradas, columns, carved
texinqui, sculptor, barber, woodcutter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texinqui
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
xima, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xima
-qui, one who has this occupation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui-1
el escultor
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 489r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=57&st=image
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