Tetzcocacihuatl (MH681r)

Tetzcocacihuatl (MH681r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tetzcocacihuatl (“Tetzcocan Woman”), is attested here as a man’s name. A line links the glyph to the head of the man that is part of the couple at the top of the page (see the contextualizing image). The glyph shows a horizontal stone (tetl) with its curling ends and diagonal stripes across the middle. This is a phonetic indicator that the name or ethnicity starts with Te-. Above the stone is what appears to be a cane or a line with a curve at the top (perhaps colli), another phonetic indicator for the second syllable of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Since this page is mainly identifying women, this first gloss could also be referring to the woman of the couple. However, there are many names of men that refer to women or things female. We are tracking this.
Other glyphs for Tetzcoco appear below. This place name seems to have challenged some tlacuilos.

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

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (female)

Gender (male)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Names (places)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

etnicidades, género, mujeres, piedras, bastón corvado para caminar, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Tetzcoco (Tetzcohco), a place name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzcoco
-catl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
cihua(tl), woman, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cihuatl
col(li), a bent or twisted thing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Mujer Tetzcoca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 681r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=442&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:

"çi" for ci

Historical Contextualizing Image: