Techil (MH902v)

Techil (MH902v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techil (perhaps “Stone-Red”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal stone (tetl) that is half black and half white, with a wavy diagonal stripe across the middle. Above the stone is a vertical chile pepper (chilli), probably intended here as a phonetic indicator that the stone is red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juo. techil

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Techil

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 of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Color names
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diagonal or angled
frontal view
horizontal
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
striped
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

colores, rojo, piedras, chiles, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
chil(li), chile pepper, or a red color, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Piedra-Rojo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 902v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=877&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: 
See Also: 

chilli (Mdz13v)

tetl (Mdz18r)