Tizocic (TR39r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Tizocic (TR39r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This multicolored drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizocic ("He Who Makes Sacrifices") is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)

Date of Manuscript:

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

orange/terracotta

Shapes and Perspectives:

pointed (see also spiky)

diagonal or angled

curving, curvy, curved

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

tlahtoani, tlatoani, tecuhtli, tecutli, teuctli, gobernadores, emperadores, nombres, sacrificios, penitencias, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tizocic, fifteenth-century ruler of Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizocic
huitz(tli), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org-content-huitztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Él Que Hace Sacrificios o Penitencias

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 39 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f103.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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Historical Contextualizing Image:

See Also:

Tizocic (Mdz12r)