Tlahuizcal (MH671r)

Tlahuizcal (MH671r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlahuizcal (perhaps “Dawn’s Radiance”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a small house (calli), with its typical entryway framed with wooden beams. Sitting on top of the house are three vertical oval shapes, two right on the house and one above them (and resting on them).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

These shapes are reminiscent of the oval turquoise color shape found in the Codex Mendoza (see below). But that other example does not offer a solution to the decipherment of this way of representing tlahuizcalli. One might expect something with thorns (huitztli) or a battle device (tlahuiztli).

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

undetermined as yet

Keywords:

aurora, rayos, resplandor, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlahuizcal(li), dawn's radiance, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuizcalli
tlahuiz(tli), battle device, weapon, insignia, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlahuiztli
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Aurora Resplandiente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 671r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=422&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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