Tlapechhuacan (MH810v)

Tlapechhuacan (MH810v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the place name Tlapechhuacan (“Where They Have Platforms,” or beds or benches) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of what appears to be a rectangular yellow bench with two visible legs.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Tlapechtli seems to be a term for various items constructed of wood, and the visual here could fit any one of them.

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:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Furniture

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

Keywords:

plataformas, camas, bancos, construcciones, madera, nombres de lugares, barrios

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlapech(tli), platform, bed, bench, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapechtli
-hua (singular possessive subject), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
-can (locative suffix), telling where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Donde Tienen Una Plataforma

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=695&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: