Tequitzalan (MH492v)

Tequitzalan (MH492v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name Tequitzalan has two prominent parts. One is an object that consists of two circles or round balls. Between {-tzalan) them are black lines that just might refer to the action "to cut" (tequi

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

One might rather expect an obsidian blade or flint knife to be making the cut. See an example of the verb tequi, below.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro teq~tzallā

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tequitzalan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

cut, cortar, between, entre, en medio

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

tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi
-tzalan, between, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzalan

Image Source: 

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), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=52&st=image.

Image Source, Rights: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library.
(Note that the folio number will be changing in the image source content, just as it does with glyphs from the Codex Mendoza. 

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tequi (Mdz71r)