Tlillancalqui (MH668v)

Tlillancalqui (MH668v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name (which is also a title in some cases, Tlillancalqui (“High Judge”). It is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a house or building (calli) with the usual wood-beam framed entrance. Inside this entrance is a black (tlilli) mark that looks something like an ink blot.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Because there is no easy glyph for the title of judge, these elements provide phonetic indicators, while perhaps also having some semantic value. The two glyphs for Tlillancalqui in the Codex Mendoza show buildings with special decorations that look something like quincunxes. The suffix -calqui, one who has a house or is a resident of a certain place, also appears in other formations in this collection. See below.

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

title/office

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Color names

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

tinta negra, colores, casas, edificios, jueces, títulos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlillancalqui, a high judge, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlillancalqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Juez Supremo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=417&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:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: