Tlaxcalteca (MH615v)

Tlaxcalteca (MH615v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of the ethnicity that serves as a barrio name, Tlaxcalteca ("People of Tlaxcallan") shows a hill in yellow and brown with two hands on top of the hill (which provides a semantic locative, perhaps altepetl). Held between the hands is a large round tortilla (tlaxcalli), which is the root for the ethnicity and the place name. The tortilla is textured with spots or dots, vaguely reminiscent of some other glyphs that have hash marks.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlaxcalteca
barrio

Gloss Normalization: 

Tlaxcalteca, barrio

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Landscape Features
Names (places)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
brown
tan
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
hash marks (maize connection)
frontal view
profile view
shading and parallel line hatching
spotted or mottled
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

maize, corn, maíz, tortillas, altepetl, ethnicity, etnicidad

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Tlaxcallan, a place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxcallan
-teca, people from a place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teca-0

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 615v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=313st=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).

See Also: 

Tlaxcaltecatl (Mdz42r)