Motecuhzoma llhuicamina (TR34v)

Motecuhzoma llhuicamina (TR34v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful simplex glyph for the personal name Motecuhzoma Ilhuicamina shows a profile view of a turquoise crown or diadem with red trim. It is facing toward the viewer's right, and it is tied at the back. This is a phonetic indicator for the middle syllables (-tecuh-) of the name Motecuhzoma; the Ilhuicamina part is not shown visually here. The gloss indicates that this is the elder (huehue) Motecuzoma.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The crown, called xiuhhuitzolli in Nahuatl, is often used as a semantic indicator simply to represent tecuhtli (also spelled teuctli) (lord). Apparently this one, however, has distinguishing features that set it apart from the usual triangular red crown.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

huehue moteuhczoma

Gloss Normalization:

Huehue Motecuhzoma

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Leather, hides

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Politics, Power, Governance

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

blue (turquoise)

red

Shapes and Perspectives:

striped

tied, bound, or bundled

curving, curvy, curved

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

diademas, nombres de hombres, personas famosas, tecuhtli, tecutli, teuctli, tlahtoani, tlatoani, crowns, coronas, diadems

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Motecuhzoma, ruler's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Motecuhzoma

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Motecuhzoma el Viejo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 34 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f94.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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