Tlecuilhuacan (MH727v)

Tlecuilhuacan (MH727v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name, Tlecuilhuacan (“Where They Have a Fireplace”), shows a frontal view of a building surrounding a fireplace (tlecuilli) that has many curls of flame and/or smoke with a U-shaped rectangular enclosure beneath it. Surrounding the fireplace is a building that tells the viewer that this is a town; it also serves as a semantic visual for the locative suffix (-can). The building is shown in a frontal view. It has a beam-framed entrance, with upright beams on the sides and a lintel across the top. Small black squares appear beneath the upright beams.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

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Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

nombres de lugares, fuego, fogón, fogones, humo, calli, edificio, pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Donde Tienen una Chimenea

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 727v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=533&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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