Tlacanenel (MH881v)

Tlacanenel (MH881v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tlacanenel (perhaps “Mixed Group of People”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two faces in profile in lose proximity, even over lapping slightly, and both looking toward the viewer’s right. The start to the name (tlaca-) refers to people. So, apparently this reduplicated human face has that intention, to convey a group of people. The -nenel ending to the name, however, refers to a mixture or mixed group, but mixture is not an obvious feature of this drawing.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There was perhaps an illustrious person named Tlacaneneltzin from history, and so perhaps when this tribute payer was a boy, his parents named him after the important personage. For example, a Tlacaneneltzin was associated with a place called Tlatocan and shown in a pictorial manuscript from Calpan (see the upper right corner of the first image on this page: https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/calpan/073_01). This is part of a manuscript called "Confirmación de Elecciones en Calpan (BNF_073)," published by TLACHIA).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o. tlacanenel

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Tlacanenel

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

reduplication (visual)

visual plural (multiples of objects)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

gente, personas, grupos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tlaca(tl), person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
tlanenel, mixed things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlanenel
nenelihui, to be mixed, or inanimate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenelihui
neneliuhtica, mixed group, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/neneliuhtica

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Un Grupo Mixto de Personas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 881v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=835&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: