Tiacapan (MH652v)

Tiacapan (MH652v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tiacapan ("First Born") is attested here as a woman's name. This is what is called a "birth-order" name. It is not unusual for women to have such names, but it is rare for men. The compound consists of a stone (tetl) providing something close to the phonetic start to the name Ti-. The rest of the glyph is the partially visible face of what may be a baby (no hair), perhaps to lead to a birth-order reading.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

acatha teacapa

Gloss Normalization: 

Ágata Tiacapan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
Aging (People, Animals, Things)
Anatomy, human body parts
Birth order
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

teacapan, familia, orden de nacimiento, nombres de mujeres, bebés, babies, birth order

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

tiacapan, first born, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tiacapan
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hija Primera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 652v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=387&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: 
"e" for i
"th" for t, d, or gd
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlaco (MH632v)

Tlaco (MH633r)