Tlecuilhuacan (MH623v)

Tlecuilhuacan (MH623v)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Tlecuilhuacan (perhaps "Place Where They Have Fire Pits"). The glyph shows a house (calli) in a frontal view. The house serves as a semantic locative. In the square in front of the building, there is a fire burning in a pit (tlecuilitl). The flames are rising up from a site that has rectangular (stone?) framing at its base.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

locative (visual but silent)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Food, Eating, Cooking

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

pozos de fuego, flamas, nombres de lugares, topónimos, edificios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tle(tl), fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tletl
tlecuil(itl), fire pit, hearth, oven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlecuilitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Chimenea

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 623v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=328st=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).