Tlaxich (MH662r)

Tlaxich (MH662r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlaxich (“Crossbow Arrow,” attested here as a man’s name) shows two horizontal arrows in a profile view. One has three barbs on its tip while the other only one.

Description, 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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
horizontal
facing right
Keywords: 

flechas, pasadores, passador, ballestas, guerra, warfare, crowsbows, arrows, proyetiles, tlaxichtli, nombres de hombres

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

tlachitli, a crossbow arrow, noted for the barbed tip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxichtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Flecha de Ballesta o Passador de Ballesta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 662r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=404&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: 
See Also: 

Tlaxich (MH506v)

Tlaxich (MH517r)

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Tlaxich (MH488r)

Tlaxich (MH649r)

Tlaxich (MH660r)

Tlaxich (MH732v)

Tlaxich (MH718r)