Tlacochin (MH618v)

Tlacochin (MH618v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name Tlacochin (an older form of tlacochtli), which translates as "Javelin," is attested here as a man's name. This javelin is a slender, vertical shaft with a round object at the top. The lower part, presumably where there would be a point, is not showing. Alongside the shaft are two descending footprints; what they offer to the reading is unclear--perhaps a phonetic complement for the "o" in Tlacochin, deriving from otli (road).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

With the compound glyphs for the name Tlacochtemoc ("Javelin Descended"), one will find these descending footprints. So, perhaps the gloss for this hieroglyph had inadvertently omitted the -temoc.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text 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

title/office

Syntax:

noun(s)

syllable: o (from otli, road)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Footprint(s), human

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Transportation, Travel, Roads

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

facing downward

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

lanza, jabalina, bastón, bajar, huella, huellas de pies, footprint, footprints, step, steps, paso, pasos, icximachiyotl, xocpalli, icxipamitl, nombres de hombres, men's names, fonetismo

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacoch(tli), a javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
Tlacochin, a name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Flecha o Lanza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 618v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=319&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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