Tlacochtemoc (MH853r)

Tlacochtemoc (MH853r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacochtemoc (“Javelin Descended”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical tlacochtli, a javelin. It is segmented and decorated at the top with feathers, fletching that is reminiscent of an arrow (mitl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See other compounds, below, for the same name.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

ant^o tlacochtemoc

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Antonio Tlacochtemoc

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

preterit tense

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

segmented

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

flechas, huella, huellas, footprint, footprints, pasos, steps, icximachiyotl, xocpalli, icxipamitl, verbos, bajar, hombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacoch(tli), a javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
temo, to descend, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temo

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Descendió la Flecha, o Bajó la Flecha

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 853r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=778&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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