Teyacac (TK208v)

Teyacac (TK208v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the place name Teyacac (“Stone Point”). It has two elements, and it is read upward. At the bottom is a horizontal stone (tetl) with its classic curling ends and wavy double line that is vertical across the middle. Above the stone is a human nose (yacatl), painted a terracotta color. It is shown in profile facing toward the viewer’s left. The locative suffix (-c) is not included visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The nose (yacatl) is almost a disyllabogram for -yaca-, but yacatl does not solely mean nose. It can also mean “point” and someone or something “in the lead.” See, for example, the glyph below for Tlayacac.

Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K06_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K06_B.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

teyacac

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Teyacac

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Tepetlaoztoc, Codex (aka Kingsborough) (TK)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1556

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Tepetlaoztoc, East of Lake Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Names (places)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
tan
white/neutral
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

puntas, picos, piedras, nombres de lugares, topónimo, topónimos

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
yaca(tl), nose, point, lead, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Punta de Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964

Image Source, Rights: 

©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlayacac (MH748v)

Huaxyacac (Mdz17v)

Cuezcomatl Iyacac (Mdz10v)