Tetlacuilol (MH688r)

Tetlacuilol (MH688r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name (or occupational designation) Tetlacuilol may be short for a carved stone (tetlacuilolli). The name is attested here as male. It contains two merged elements. One is the stone (tetl), which is shown horizontally with curlicue ends.The other is a piece of writing or a design (what we are assuming to be tlacuilolli) in the form of a swirl.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

While tlacuilolli seems to refer to a document or a piece of writing, when the term is combined with stone, the emphasis seems to shift toward an emphasis on a design. Further research may help clarify this.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

martin tetlacuilol

Gloss Normalization:

Martín Tetlacuilol

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

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:

Art, Design, Crafts, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

horizontal

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

piedras talladas, diseños, escrituras, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

piedra tallada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 688r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=456&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: