Tezaca (MH626r)

Tezaca (MH626r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tezaca ("Long Lip Plug," from tezacatl) is attested here as a man's name. This one emerges from below the bottom lip, and curves upward, ending in a point.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another spelling for the long lip plug is tenzacatl.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peDro
teçaca

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tezaca

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
pointed (see also spiky)
profile view
Keywords: 

lip plugs, lip-plugs, labrets, jewelry, jollas, oro, obsidiana, jade, enchufes, adornos labiales, bezotes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tezaca(tl), a lip plug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Enchufe de Labio

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=334st=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).

Orthography: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Oton (MH521r)

Motecuhzoma (Mdz15v)

cempohualli (Mdz21v)