Tezcacoacatl (MH692v)

Tezcacoacatl (MH692v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Tezcacoacatl (“Person from Tezcacoatlan”), is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows a serpent (coatl) in profile, facing right, with its eye open and its bifurcating tongue protruding. The snake’s spotted body is coiled in one loop around a black obsidian mirror (tezcatl). The tail has a rattler.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Two examples of glyphs referring to this same affiliation appear in the Codex Mendoza (below). A “home of Tezcacoatl” glyph also appears in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco on folio 709 recto.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

gaspar tezcacovacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Gaspar Tezcacoacatl

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bifurcated

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

spotted or mottled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

snakes, serpents, serpientes, mirrors, espejos, cohuatl, barrios, pueblos, topónimos, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tezca(tl), mirror, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tezcatl
coa(tl), snake/serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
-ca(tl), a suffix indicating an affiliation or a title, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

persona de Tezcacoatlan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 692v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=465&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:

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: