Tetlacuilol (MH670r)

Tetlacuilol (MH670r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tetlacuilol (perhaps “Written in Stone” or “Carved in Stone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal stone (tetl), which seems to play a logographic role. The stone has curling ends and diagonal stripes in the middle. These diagonals are bound by pairs of vertical stripes, serving like borders, which are unusual. Above the stone is an emerging piece of paper with small markings that appear to be alphabetic writing (tlacuilolli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See other examples of tetlacuilolli below. One of those clearly also involves a piece of paper. But several suggest stone carving or sculpting, such as in the making of columns, or the carving of designs in stone.

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:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Paper

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

striped

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

diagonal or angled

dotted, granular, textured

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

escritura alfabética, escultura, piedras, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tetlacuilol(li), a piece of writing carved in stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetlacuilolli
tlacuilol(li), a piece of writing or a painting, or a design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Escrito en Piedra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 670r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=420&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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