Tlocalcatl (MH729r)

Tlocalcatl (MH729r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Tlocalcatl (perhaps “Person of Tlocalco," or "Person of the Falcon-House”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a spotted bird, perhaps a falcon-like raptor (tlotli) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Above the bird is a house (calli) in a frontal view. The building has an entrance framed by what are likely wooden beams. The -catl (affiliation suffix) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Bernal Díaz (A True History of the Conquest of New Spain, 1910, 19) suggested that Teocalcatl (a person associated with the temple) was the intention. If so, was the reference to a teocalli (pre-contact temple) being disguised with a reference to a bird?

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
frontal view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

rapaz, rapaces, pájaros, edificios, casas, guardianes, nombres de hombres, pueblos, etnicidades

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

tlo(tli), a falcon-like raptor bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlotli
cal(li), a house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-catl (affiliation suffix), person of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(una persona asociada con la casa de los halcones)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 729r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=536&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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