Tizocic (TR39r)

Tizocic (TR39r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This multicolored drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizocic ("He Who Makes Sacrifices") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph includes a blood-red thorn piercing a stone (orange and purple, with its classic diagonal stripes and curling ends. The stone (tetl) could provide a phonetic indicator for the start to the name (Ti-). It also comes closer to tezoc (bloodletter), which advances the reading of the name somewhat farther, if that is the objective.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
gray
orange/terracotta
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
diagonal or angled
frontal view
pointed (see also spiky)
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

tlahtoani, tlatoani, tecuhtli, tecutli, teuctli, gobernadores, emperadores, nombres, sacrificios, penitencias, nombres de hombres

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

Tizocic, fifteenth-century ruler of Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizocic
tezoc, a bloodletter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezoc
te(tl), stone, tezoc, a bloodletter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Que Hace Sacrificios o Penitencias

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 39 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f103.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tizocic (Mdz12r)