Tzacualcatl (MH619r)

Tzacualcatl (MH619r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Tzacualcatl (from Tzacualco) is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a fish. It is unclear how the fish relates to the name.

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:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

etnicidades, pez, fish, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tzacual(li), a small pyramid, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzacualli
Tzacualco, a town name,
Tzacualcatl, a person from Tzacualco
michin, fish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/michin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de Tzacualco (o Zacualco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320&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: