Tlacahuepan (MH650r)

Tlacahuepan (MH650r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or title, Tlacahuepan (a ritual title, the name of a divinity, and a name born by famous men), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows what may be a horizontal, long, thin piece of wood huepantli. A rope or cord (probably a mecatl) connects to the end of the wood, probably so that it could be dragged--recalling the verbs huilana and huepana, to drag wood--and raising the possibility that this compound glyph is partly phonographic, not fully logographic, with huepana complementing huepantli. A face that appears at the right end of the wood provides the visual element for tlaca- (person, human).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This tribute payer could have been named after a religious divinity, or one or another famous men of the early sixteenth century, or he held the ritual title, which referred to a young man who was immolated at the end of the festivals celebrated in the month of Toxcatl. Xavier Noguez translates the name to "Viga Humana" (Human Beam). [See Xavier Noguez, "Tlacahuepan," Arqueología Méxicana #176 (Sept. 2022).] Similarly, the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl gives "hombre madero" (wooden man), citing Durán 1579.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

peDro tlacahuepa

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tlacahuepan

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

phonetic possibilities

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Rope, cord

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

horizontal

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

shading and parallel line hatching

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

madera, sogas, personas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tlacahuepan, a ritual title, divine name, and a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Tlacahuepan
tlaca(tl), a person, a human being, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
huepan(tli), a rough beam of wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepantli
huepana, to drag wood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huepana

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(nombre o título religioso)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 650r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=382&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:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: