Tlacatecuhtli (Mdz17v)

Tlacatecuhtli (Mdz17v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the title tlacatecuhtli includes a turquoise diadem (xiuhhuitzolli) with a red (leather?) tie, which symbolized the term for lord (tecuhtli). The diadem is above a man's head, shown in profile view, looking to the right. He has dark hair that hangs down below his ear and with bangs.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss indicates that this title refers to a governor (of some type). The "tlaca-" part refers to people, and the "tecuhtli" part means lord. Another glyph for this same title shows a face paint that this man does not have.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tlacatectli.governador

Gloss Normalization: 

tlacatecuhtli, gobernador

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex (Mdz)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1541, but by 1553 at the latest

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
title/office
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

gobernadores, títulos, diademas, governors, titles, diadems

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlaca(tl), person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
tecuh(tli), lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli

Image Source: 

Codex Mendoza, folio 17 verso, https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/2fea788e-2aa2-4f08-b6d9-648c00..., image 45 of 188.

Image Source, Rights: 

Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlacatecuhtli (Mdz18r)