Tlacochtecpa (MH741v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacochtecpa (“Spear-Flint Knife”) is attested here as a man’s name. It shows two vertical spears or arrows (tlacochtli or tlacochin). Apparently, the points are flint knives (tecpatl).
Stephanie Wood
Points are not always included in portrayals of Tlacochin, such as in the glyphs in the Codex Mendoza or the Tlacochin of MH498v. But the points can also be exaggerated (e.g., Tlacochin, MH651r). Also, the tlacochtli will regularly be found in an arrangement that surely has a significance, such as forming a square or crossed at angles, not usually seen in the case of the mitl (arrow or dart) glyph. Another thing to watch is the barbed points and the fletching (or lack thereof). The variations are considerable.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
pedernal, lanza, proyectil, armas, guerra, cazar, nombres de hombres
Tlacochin, a man’s name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin
tlacoch(tli), arrow, spear, or javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
tecpa(tl), flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
Lanza-Pedernal
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 741v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=561&st=image
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