Tizatemoc (MH619v)

Tizatemoc (MH619v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Tizatemoc (perhaps "Salt Descended") is attested here as a man's name. Awaiting further decipherment, it is difficult to say whether this is a compound or a simplex. The glyph has four parts. Three of them look like perhaps three bracelets of green stone beads, plus perhaps a necklace or a long string of green beads. Nothing is obviously tizatl (chalk), given its color. It may be that the longer string of beads (if that is what they are) is descending (from the verb, temo, to descend).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po tiçatemoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tizatemoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

descend, descender, piernas, piezas de tiza, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Tiza Descendió

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=321&st=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).

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