Tlepitzhuactoc (MH509v)

Tlepitzhuactoc (MH509v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlepitzhuactoc (here, attested as a man's name) shows the upper body of a man in profile facing toward the viewer's left. He appears to be surrounded by smoke, curling brown lines that come out from this body. He may be holding something in his right hand.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The gloss provides the relevant verb (tlepitza), to blow on the fire, which may be what the man is doing in the glyph. The other element in the name, this one provided by the gloss, may the noun, cornstalks (huactoctli. It is difficult to tell if this image includes cornstalks, but they are typically something that could be burning in a rural town.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

benito
tlepitzvactoc

Gloss Normalization:

Benito Tlepitzhuactoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

preterit tense

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Corn, Maize

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

profile view

facing left

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

smoke, fire, humo, fuego, maíz, tallos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlepitza, to blow on the fire, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlepitza
huactoc(tli), dry cornstalks, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hu%C4%81ct%C5%8Dctli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 509v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=98&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: