Tepoliuhcan (MH605r)

Tepoliuhcan (MH605r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tepoliuhcan (“Where People Disappeared") shows a frontal view of the lower two-thirds of a man's body. He wears a white knotted loincloth with a large loop at the top. The start to this place name, Tepoli-, refers to a man's genitals, and the loincloth provides that reading, but this is a phonetic indicator for -poliuh-, meaning the people have disappeared, drawing from the verb polihui. The final -can in the place name says "where," but it is not represented visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tepoliuhca barrio

Gloss Normalization:

Tepoliuhcan, barrio

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:

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

indefinite "te"

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

vertical, upright

Keywords:

penes, miembros, taparrabos, desaparecerse, gente, lugar, barrios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepol(li), penis, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepolli
-can (locative suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2
polihui, to disappear, to become destroyed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/polihui
te- (indefinite pronoun), people in general, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
maxtla(tl), loincloth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maxtlatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Donde la Gente Se Desapareció

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 605r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=292st=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: