tecpanpixque (MH643r)

tecpanpixque (MH643r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the occupation of tecpanpixque (guardians of twenty tribute payers), shows a vertical, rectangular, white flag (panitl), three stones (tetl) with their usual, alternating light and dark stripes and their curly ends. The stones are stacked vertically. The flag and stones provide phonetic indicators for the start of the word (tecpan-). There is a bell (coyolli) at the bottom of the grouping.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The reading order for the stones to flag part of the compound is upward. What is not clear is how--or even if--the bell stands for the second part of the word (-pixqui), but perhaps it has a semantic value. Perhaps the guardian holds up flag and/or rings a bell when he is making a call for the collection of tribute. If the bell represents the -pixqui ending, then the reading order comes back down again (multidirectional).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

tepanpixgue

Gloss Normalization:

tecpanpixque

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:

numbers

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Numbers, Math

Occupations

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

multidirectional

Keywords:

campanas, campanillas, banderas, piedras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tecpanpixqui, guardian of twenty (tribute payers), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpanpixqui
centecpanpixqui, a guardian of twenty (tribute payers), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centecpanpixqui
pam(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
coyol(li), bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

guardián de veinte tributarios (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 643r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=368&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).

Orthography:

"g" for c, q, or x

dropped "c"

Historical Contextualizing Image: