Tlacochin (MH668r)

Tlacochin (MH668r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name Tlacochin (an older form of tlacochtli), which translates as "Javelin," is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an upright, fletched projectile (tlacochtli) coming out of the top of a ceramic jug (comitl). The point is not visible, down inside the jug, which has some shading that gives it a three-dimensionality (revealing European artistic influence). The jug is a phonetic indicator for the -co- in the middle of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The tlacochin looks much like a mitl, with the feather decorations. Sometimes, however, the tlacochin projectiles are crossed or put in a rectangular arrangement.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

balthasar.tlacochin

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Baltazar Tlacochin

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

syllable: co/con/com (from comitl, pot/jug)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Pottery, Earthenware

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

arrows, flechas, lanza, jabalina, nombres de hombres, ollas, jarras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlacoch(tli), a javelin, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochtli
Tlacochin, famous person's name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacochin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Flecha o Lanza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=416&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:

"s" for z

"th" for t, d, or gd

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: