Tlaxcalteca (MH651r)

Tlaxcalteca (MH651r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the ethnic name Tlaxcalteca, which also serves as a place name for a barrio of Huexotzinco. The compound features a hill or mountain (a semantic locative). On top of the hill is a tortilla (tlaxcalli), which is at the root of the ethnic name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note the presence of the hill in other examples of Tlaxcalteca, below. This seems to be an important element.

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:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cerros, montañas, tortillas, comida, nombres de lugares, etnicidades, Tlaxcallan

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaxcal(li), tortilla, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxcalli
-teca, people from a place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teca-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Gente de Tlaxcala

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=384&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: