Tzacualcatl (MH725r)

Tzacualcatl (MH725r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Tzacualcatl (“Person from Tzacualco”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The contemporary town name may be spelled Zacualco. The glyph shows a hill with a grid-like temple on top. Perhaps the grid recalls stone blocks. The hill is striped with diagonal lines.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The Codex Guillermo Tovar de Huejotzingo (2011, 118), published by Baltazar Brito Guadarrama, mentions a Pedro Zacualcatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Religion (Indigenous)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

Zacualcatl, Zacualco, pirámides, etnicidades, pueblos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tzacual(li), a temple or pyramid, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzacualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

((una persona de Tzacualco o Zacoalco)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=528&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tzacualli (Mdz6r)