Tlacencauh (MH664r)

Tlacencauh (MH664r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacencauh (“Finely Finished”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a maize cob (centli, also spelled cintli) with a stem and two visible husks. This corn serves as a phonetic indicator for the middle syllable of the name (-cen-).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

adjective

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Corn, Maize

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

maíz, completo, bien acabado (alabando una cosa), nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacencauh(tli), something well completed, finished, praiseworthy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacencauhtli
cen(tli) an ear of maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Bien Acabado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 664r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=408&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: