Teocuitlachiuhqui (MH730r)

Teocuitlachiuhqui (MH730r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or occupation , Teocuitlachiuhqui (“Gold Maker”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a frontal view of what may be a pile of excrement (cuitlatl), a phonetic indicator for the middle part of the name. At the bottom of the excrement, and held by a (left) human hand that is reaching in from the left, may be a gold (teocuitlatl) coin. The hand would be a semantic indicator, perhaps, of the act of making something (chihua).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The teocuitlatl here is much like the teocuitlatl in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 630 recto (below). Alternately, in lieu of excrement, both of these glyphs could feature a pile of pesos or tomines (balancing on a hand in this particular glyph).

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā teocuitlachiuiq~

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Teocuitlachiuhqui

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)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Cleanliness, Orderliness, and their absence

Gender (male)

Labor Issues

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Money, Coins, Prices

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

oro, dinero, monedas, excremento, oficios, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

teocuitla(tl), gold, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/teocuitlatl
-chiuhqui, someone who makes something, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chiuhqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Fabricante de Oro

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538&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).

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