Tlacochcalco (MH591v)

Tlacochcalco (MH591v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Tlacochcalco (perhaps "At the Living Room," or "At the House of the Arrows") shows a frontal view of a building or house (calli), with the emblematic beam-lined entryway. Above the building is an arrangement of four arrows connecting and overlapping at right angles, forming something of a structure (perhaps the tlacochinamitl), which could be a phonetic indicator. If "living room" is intended, the tlacochtli (projectiles, such as arrows or spears) may serve only as a phonetic indicator.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

These arrows or spears are connected like this in more than one glyph, but sometimes, they are also shown in pairs, crossed, and as individual weapons. Our Online Nahuatl Dictionary relays an example of people using tlacochtli as a support to swim, perhaps something like a raft. The house (calli) and the four spears or arrows (tlacochtli or tlacochin) on the roof provide the phonetic components for the title, while they may also have a semantic value, if the high Tlacochcalcatl had an office in a special building and if his title came from prowess in war.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tlacochcalco
barrio

Gloss Normalization:

Tlacochcalco, barrio

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

right angle(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

small town, neighborhood, barrio, buildings, edificios, houses, casas, arrows, flechas, saetas, judges, jueces, salas, cuartos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacochcal(li), a living room, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochcalli
tlacochcalca(tl), an ethnicity or a general or a high judge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochcalcatl
tlacoch(tli), a type of arrow, a spear, a weapon, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
tlacochinami(tl), an enclosure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochinamitl
Tlacochin, a name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-co (locative suffix), at or in, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En la Casa de las Flechas o, En la Sala

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 591v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=262&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).

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