Tezcatlapan (MH642v)

Tezcatlapan (MH642v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-and-white drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tezcatlapan ("On the Mirror Water," attested here as a man's name) shows a half of a mirror, in the form of a half circle standing upright. The center is filled in with black, and this has a white border or perimeter. The straight side of this half mirror is on the viewer's left. The -apan part of the name ("on the water") is not shown visually unless it is somehow indicated by the fact that the mirror is not complete.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It is somewhat unusual for a personal name to be a place name without the suffix (e.g., -catl, or -ecatl) indicating affiliation.

See below for signs of a full mirror.

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

half circle

frontal view

Keywords:

espejos, mitad, agua, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tezca(tl), mirror, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezcatl
-apan, on the water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/apan-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Espejo (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=367&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: