Tizatemoc (MH619v)

Tizatemoc (MH619v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizatemoc (perhaps "Chalk Descended") is attested here as a man's name. Awaiting further decipherment, it is difficult to say whether this is a compound or a simplex. The glyph has four parts. Three of them must be pieces of chalk (tizatl). The leg, shown in profile, facing toward the viewer's right suggests the verb to descend temo, which is glossed as being in the past tense.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o tiçatemoc

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tizatemoc

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

preterit tense

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

green (dark)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

oval (see also leaf shaped)

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

descend, descender, piernas, piezas de tiza, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tiza(tl), chalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Tiza Descendió

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=321&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).

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