Tlacatecatl (FCbk8f6v)

Tlacatecatl (FCbk8f6v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the personal name or title, Tlacatecatl, shows the head of a man in profile, facing the viewer’s right. He had a clump of hair tied on the top of his head in what appears to be the temillotl hairstyle worn by warriors. This man, don Martín Tlacatecatl, was the sixth ruler of Tlatelolco after the Spanish seizure of power. He may have been a military officer with a rank something like general.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note the white paint around this glyph, which suggests some modifications were made to it. This glyph is much like the Tlacatecatl glyph of the Codex Mendoza (found on folio 18 recto, as shown below). Another tlacatecatl glyph in this digital collection shows a small person, wearing a diadem.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlacatecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Tlacatecatl

Source Manuscript:

Florentine/Florentinus, Codex (FC)

Date of Manuscript:

1577

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

red

tan

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

cabello, pelo, peinado, guerrero, guerreros, gobernadores, gobernantes, gobernador, gobernante, tlatoani, tlatoque, tlatoani, tlahtohqueh, Tlatilolco, Tlaltecatzin, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tlacatecatl, governing title, military title, possibly also a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(un título de algún gobernador o algún militar, o un nombre personal)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 8: Kings and Lords", fol. 6v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/8/folio/6v/images/8cb69807-027... Accessed 23 July 2025.

Image Source, Rights:

Images of the digitized Florentine Codex are made available under the following Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International). For print-publication quality photos, please contact the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana ([email protected]). The Library of Congress has also published this manuscript, using the images of the World Digital Library copy. “The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection. Absent any such restrictions, these materials are free to use and reuse.”

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