Tlacochin (MH668r)

Tlacochin (MH668r)
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. The glyph shows an upright, fletched projectile (tlacochtli) coming out of the top of a ceramic jug (comitl). The point is not visible, down inside the jug, which has some shading that gives it a three-dimensionality (revealing European artistic influence). The jug is a phonetic indicator for the -co- in the middle of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tlacochin looks much like a mitl, with the feather decorations. Sometimes, however, the tlacochin projectiles are crossed or put in a rectangular arrangement.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

balthasar.tlacochin

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Baltazar Tlacochin

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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:

noun(s)

syllable: co/con/com (from comitl, pot/jug)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Pottery, Earthenware

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

arrows, flechas, lanza, jabalina, nombres de hombres, men's names, fonetismo, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacoch(tli), a javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
Tlacochin, famous person's 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 668r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=416&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).

Orthography:

"s" for z

"th" for t, d, or gd

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: