Tecpaneca (Azca9)

Tecpaneca (Azca9)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This is a red, white, and yellow painting of the compound glyph for the occupation, title, or ethnicity, Tecpanecatl (but glossed in the plural, Tecpaneca). It shows a building that must be a tecpancalli (royal palace). Above the building is a white, rectangular, upright flag (panitl or pamitl) flying toward the right. The flag provides the phonetic complement of the -pan- in the name or title.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Other glyphs in this digital collection for the name or title, Tecpanecatl, appear below. Many of them have an M-shaped construction of some kind that has yet to be deciphered.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, but content about the migration from Aztlan to about 1527

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (places)
Occupations
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
frontal view
profile view
rectangular
right angle(s)
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

Tecpanecatl, person linked to tecpan (ruler's palace), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanecatl

Image Source: 

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=9&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tecpanecatl (MH785r)