Texopanecatl (MH686r)

Texopanecatl (MH686r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Texopanecatl (“Person from Texopan”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an empty circle, often used for color names. It would probably be filled with a turquoise blue (texotli) paint, if the tlacuilo had access to paints for this page. Above the circle is a horizontal double line. And, at the top, a flag flies toward the viewer's right. This provides the phonetic syllable -pan-. The affiliation suffix (-ecatl) might not be shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See various color names as represented by glyphs that are either filled with color (when available) or left as empty circles, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

horizontal

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

turquesas, pueblos, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

texo(tli), blue, turquoise blue, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texotli
pan, in or on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
-ecatl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de Texopan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=452&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:

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: