Tecuicuil (MH647v)

Tecuicuil (MH647v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for Tecuicuil ("Varied in Color" or “Painted Stone”) is attested here as a man's name. It shows a stone (tetl), fairly horizontal, with a curling right end and two stripes across its middle. On the left end of the stone and below it are curling symbols that refer perhaps to cuicuiltic, something painted and often with multiple colors.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tetl appears to be a phonetic indicator for the start of the name. Tecuicuiltic, a dictionary word, does not necessarily have anything to do with stones. That said, the archaeological site of Cuicuilco has painted stones, and they are decorated with squiggly lines that resemble this and other glyphs for just Cuicuil.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Ant^o tecuicuil

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Tecuicuil

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

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

multicolored, de muchos colores, piedras, pintar, pinturas, escrituras, escribir, remolinos, nombres de hombres

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons:

Museum/Rare Book Notes:

This drawing of the red lines that are painted on stones at the Cuicuilco archaeological site seems to capture something of the tecuicuiltic concept (painted stone). Credit: INAH signage at the site of what Byron Cummings called a temazcalli, outside the round pre-Classic pyramid. (SW)

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
cuicuiltic, something painted or spotted, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuicuiltic
tecuicuiltic, varied in color, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuicuiltic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

De Muchos Colores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=377&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: