Amacozatl (MH795r)

Amacozatl (MH795r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl logogram for the personal name Amacozatl (perhaps "Yellow Paper River," the name of a river in Morelos) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph consists of a square sheet of paper (amatl) with two short streams of water (atl) coming down from the lower edge. Each stream has a droplet at the bottom consisting of a small circle with an even smaller concentric circle inside. Further, the streams each have a black line of current running down the middle. The -coz- syllable, from coztic (yellow), is ap part of the name that is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This seems to be a place name that became a personal name, or perhaps the man was from the region of what is today called Amacuzac, and still seems to suggest "Yellow Paper River." In the Codex Mendoza there is a place name called Amacoztitlan, which scholars Berdan and Karttunen have concluded refers to a "Place of Amacoztic Trees." But it could also refer to being near the river (and barrio) in the hotlands called the Amacozatl (also spelled Amacotzatl and Amacotzac). Today, there is a river in Morelos spelled Amacuzac. Pilar Maynez associates the river and barrio names with rainbows (cozamalotl), which involves the reversal of some syllables. Garibay had wondered about that, too.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o amacoçātl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Pedro Amacozatl

Gloss/Text 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)

syllables/two: ama (from amatl)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Paper

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, papel, amate, agua

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Amacozatl, the name of a river in the hotlands, and the name of a barrio (near Cohuixca), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amacozatl
ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
coztic, something yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Agua de los Árboles Amacoztic (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 795r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=664&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:

"ç" for z or tz

intrusive overbar

Historical Contextualizing Image: