Tecpanecatl (MH591r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tecpanecatl ("Person Associated with the Tecpancalli, or Palace") is attested here as a man's name. Alternately, it could be an occupation, title, or ethnicity. The tecpan was a palace of a lord (tecuhtli). The name's ending, -ecatl, suggests that the person had an affiliation with a tecpan or tecpancalli. None of the examples from the Codex Mendoza of a tecpan in this collection have an appearance anything like the structure that is visible here. The right and left sides seem to be upright beams. Between the beams is a horizontal stone with curling ends and diagonal stripes. The stone provides the phonetic element at the start of the name ("Te-"). Bending out and away from the tops of the two upright beams are perhaps ropes (mecatl?).
Stephanie Wood
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).
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antonio tecpanecatl
Antonio Tecpanecatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
government, gobierno, palacio real, stones, piedras, nombres de hombres
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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
tecpancal(li), a palace or a royal home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpancalli
(un nombre o una persona asociada con el palacio real)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 591r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=261&st=image
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