Tlatzacual (MH815v)

Tlatzacual (MH815v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlatzacual (“Fence”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a fence that is made of stakes with their point up, bundled and tied in groups of two or three, and put in a row.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Few fences appear in this collection as of August 2024. One that is something like the tlazacualli is seen at the top of the glyph for Chinampan (below). Dropping the starting Tla-, and leaving in tzacualli, one normally finds a stepped construction like a pyramid in this collection.

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)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

frontal view

Keywords:

paredes, cercas, estacas, cercados, vallas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlatzacual(li), a fence made of stakes or branches, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatzacualli-0
tzacual(li), a stepped pyramid, hill, enclosure, fence, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzacualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cerca, o Barda

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 815v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=705&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: