Tecpanecatl (MH486v)

Tecpanecatl (MH486v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name or title Tecpanecatl shows a vertical, red-and-white tecpatl (flint knife), a near homophone and therefore perhaps a phonetic indicators for Tecpan-. A horizontal shape appears below the flint knife. It could contributes= to the remainder of the name, but it has yet to be identified.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tecpanecatl was a high title for a lord. It was also a name found across central Mexico. Sometimes this name is confused with the ethnicity Tepanecatl (or Tepaneca in the plural).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro tecpanecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tecpanecatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

homophony, rebus

Colors:

red

white/neutral

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

títulos, palacios, navajas, cuchillos, obsidiana

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tecpanecatl, a name and a title, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanecatl
tecpan, a ruler's palace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpan
-ecatl (affiliation suffix), typically added to a place ending in -pan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0
tecpa(tl), a flint knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
tecpancal(li), a palace or a royal home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpancalli
Tepanecatl, an ethnicity, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepanecatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 486v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=52&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).

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