Tlapaltecciz (MH708v)

Tlapaltecciz (MH708v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlapaltecciz (“Red Conch”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a vertical red (tlapalli) conch shell (tecciztli). A creature (with a head and waving arms) is half-way out of the shell near the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See some additional glyphs, below, that provide visuals for the tecciztli, conch shell trumpet.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Shells

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

profile view

frontal view

facing right

Keywords:

caracoles, colores, rojo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapal(li), red, paint, color, dye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapalli
tecciz(tli), conch shell, egg, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecciztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Caracola Roja

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 708v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=495&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:

"z" for tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: