Tepenahuacatl (MH648v)

Tepenahuacatl (MH648v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful painting of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Tepenahuacatl ("Person from Tepenahuac") is attested as pertaining to a man. It shows two mounds of different heights, representing the term tepetl (hill or mountain). These landscape features are painted yellow and green, and they have shading, giving them a three-dimensionality. On top of the higher peak are two speech scrolls, one curling off to the left and one to the right, with their starting points joined at the center of the top of the mountain. The speech scrolls play a phonetic role to bring forth the reading -nahuac (near).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Coincidentally, the two scrolls going in different directions are reminiscent of the nose ornament, yacametztli, which is also a symbol for octli (pulque).

These mountains show considerable change from the tepetl glyph or element in the Codex Mendoza, which has curly rocky (tetl) outcroppings providing a phonetic start (te-) to the word tepetl. That glyph also typically has horizontal yellow and red stripes at its base, the location for spring water to emerge.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

diego tepenavacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Tepenahuacatl

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)

visible sound

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

green (light)

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

three-dimensionality

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

montañas, cerros, volutas, hablar, audio visible, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
nahua(tl), language or pleasing sound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuatl
-nahuac, near, next to, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nahuac
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
yacametztli, nose ornament, also a symbol for octli/pulque, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacametztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de Cerca de la Montaña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=379&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: