Tlachquiauh (MH874r)

Tlachquiauh (MH874r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlachquiyauh (perhaps “Just Outside the Ball Court”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird’s eye view of a ball court (tlachtli) with a raindrop (quiyahuitl) falling down from the lower side of the court. This ball court has the classic shape of a capital letter "i" lying on its side. It is not painted in colors the way the courts are painted in the Codex Mendoza (see below). The rain is a phonetic indicator for the term -quiahuac, which is an adverb that says "outside" or "at the entrance."

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

here is a place name, Tlachquiyauhco, which seems to be the original term for what is now called Tlaxiaco in the Mixteca, state of Oaxaca. But this is the first personal name that resembles the place name. It is somewhat of a surprise that an affiliation suffix is not attached, which would mean that this person is from Tlachquiyauhco. Another interesting thing about this person is that he is a “cuacuauhtlaxqui,” as are other men in this community. A frontal view of a horned animal accompanies the gloss for his occupation. It would seem he works tending cattle. Some of these jobs were helped by gañanes working on Spanish stockraising estates, as mentioned by Teresa Rojas Rabiela in her book Padrones de Tlaxcala del siglo XVI (1987), 45.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pilipe tlachq~auh

Gloss Normalization:

Felipe Tlachquiauh

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:

adverb

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sports, Games, Leisure

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

rectangular

Keywords:

ball courts, ballcourts, canchas, pistas, juegos, pelotas, rain, lluvia, Tlaxiaco, Mixteca, entradas, afuera

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlach(tli), ball court, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlachtli
quiyahui(tl), rain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuitl
quiyahuac, outside or at the entrance, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Justo Afuera de la Cancha del Juego de Pelota

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 874r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=820&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:

"i" for e

"p" or "ph" for f, p, or b

Historical Contextualizing Image: