Tepoliuhqui (MH691v)

Tepoliuhqui (MH691v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tepoliuhqui (perhaps “Destroyer of People”) is attested here as a man’s name or title. The glyph shows a stone (tetl) broken in half. The stone is in two parts. The lower part is what is left of a horizontal stone, with its typical curling ends and dark diagonal stripe across the middle. The other piece is higher and tipped to the right. It also has the classic curling ends and dark stripe. The implication is that the stone has been destroyed (using the verb, polihui). In actuality, the title or name of this man may refer to his destruction of people (te-) through war (the verbs poloa and tepoloa can mean to defeat through warfare), and the stone is a phonetic indicator.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The contextualizing image and the gloss provide the information that this man was a lord. Tepoliuhqui could be part of his title, like tecuhtli (lord). He is also sitting in the entryway to what may be a palace (tecpan). He wears a diadem with a mesh pattern and a red border. He also wears a cape tied at the shoulder. It has hatching that gives it a three-dimensionality, and it has a red border. He also wears a European-style garment under the cape. He sits elevated on a stool. His feet are bare.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā tepoliuhg~ tecuhtli

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Tepoliuhqui Tecuhtli

Gloss 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

Writing Features:

simplex or element as phonogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

War or Conflict

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

guerra, gente, títulos, nombres de hombres, piedras rotas o quebradas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
te-, nonspecific human object prefix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/te
polihui, destroyed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/polihui
poloa, to defeat, destroy, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poloa
tepoloa, to defeat people in war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoloa
-qui, one who does this, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/qui
tecuh(tli), a lord, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

El Que Derrota a la Gente

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 691v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=463&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: