Totequipan (Verg21v)

Totequipan (Verg21v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Totequipan (“On Our Tribute,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a tribute cloth with three sections. Above this is a profile view of a flag or banner on a capped post, possibly made of wood. The flag is flying toward the viewer's left. It has a triangular section cut out from what would have been the usual autonomous-era rectangular paper flag. Thus, this flag suggests European influence.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -pan is a preposition, saying "on," and has no semantic value relating to flags. The flag is there only for the phonetic value.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Vergara, Codex (Verg)

Date of Manuscript:

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

preposition

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Gender (male)

Labor Issues

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Paper

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

vertical, upright

dotted, granular, textured

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

tierras, parcelas, tributos, preposición

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

to- (possessive pronoun), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
tequi(tl), tribute labor allotment, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequitl
pam(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En Nuestra Parcela Para Pagar Tributos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Codex Vergara, folio 21v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f50.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image: