Tlacochin (MH631v)

Tlacochin (MH631v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacochin (perhaps "Arrow" or "Spear") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph is a bundle of projectiles, points down, most with fletching, and some segmenting.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

vertical, upright

Keywords:

spears, lanzas, javelins, jabalinas, flechas, arrows, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacochtli, a type of arrow, spear, or javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
Tlacochin, a famous name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Flecha o Lanza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 631r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=345&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: