Yacanextli (TK208v)

Yacanextli (TK208v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painted compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the personal name Yacanextli (literally, “Nose Ashes”). This is a local leader in the larger altepetl of Tepetlaoztoc in the area of Tetzcoco. The compound has two elements, and the reading order is left to right. The first element is the head of a man with a large nose (yacatl). A cloud of black dots, apparently representing ashes (nextli), surround the nose. The term yacatl could alternatively refer to a point or a leader, but how such possibilities relate to ashes is not clear. Note that the group of ashes have suffered from staining and blurring.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This collection contains other personal names that start with yacatl (see below).

Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K06_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K06_B.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

yacanestli.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Yacanextli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Tepetlaoztoc, Codex (aka Kingsborough) (TK)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1556

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tepetlaoztoc, East of Lake Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

brown

orange/terracotta

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

narices, fuego, nombres de hombres, men’s names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

nex(tli), ashes, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nextli
yaca(tl), nose, point, leader, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Nariz-Cenizas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964

Image Source, Rights:

©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.

Orthography:

"s" for x

Historical Contextualizing Image: