Tlecuilhua (MH812v)

Tlecuilhua (MH812v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlecuilhua (“Possessor of a Fireplace”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows what seems to be a frontal view of an upright and rectangular oven, dark in the center, and sitting on two stone blocks or adobe bricks.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for some other examples of locations where fires were made for various purposes.

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

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Furniture

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

rectangular

frontal view

Keywords:

chimeneas, hornos, fogones, hogares, posesión, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlecuil(li), hearth, fireplace, home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlecuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Poseedor de un Fogón

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 812v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=699&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:

"u" for hu

intrusive overbar

Historical Contextualizing Image: