Tlachquiyauhco (TR41r)

Tlachquiyauhco (TR41r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a painting of the compound glyph for the place name, Tlachquiyauhco (perhaps "Just Outside the Ball Court"). It shows a bird's eye view of a ball court (tlachtli), which is painted brown and has a gray border. Rain (quiyahuitl) falls over the court in an elevation view, coming down from a cluster of nine gray and white clouds. Twelve short streams of water comprise the rain; each one is a short turquoise-blue stripe with a droplet of small concentric circles at the lower end.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Importantly, the rain in this compound could be playing a phonetic rather than a logographic role, in that -quiyahuac is an adverb that says "outside" or "at the entrance," and that may be the referent.

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlchquiaco

Gloss Normalization:

Tlachquiyauhco

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visual movement

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Movement

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Sports, Games, Leisure

Water

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

border (red, plain, or patterned)

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

elevation view

frontal view

rectangular

shading and parallel line hatching

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

back to front

Keywords:

ball courts, ballcourts, conchas, pistas, afuera, entradas, pelotas, juegos, lluvia, Tlaxiaco, Mixteca

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlach(tli), ball court, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachtli
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
quiyahuac, outside or at the entrance, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuac
-co (locative suffix), in or at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Justo Afuera de la Cancha del Juego de Pelota

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 41 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f107.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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