Chimalpanecatl (MH647r)

Chimalpanecatl (MH647r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, "Chimalpanecatl" ("Person from Chimalpan," attested here as a man's name), shows a war shield (chimalli). It is meant to give away the ethnicity of the man. This shield is drawn as a circle with a fringe at the bottom. Inside the circle is a yellow stripe, curving upward at the ends, and located about two thirds of the way up the circle. Above this line is one small U-shape, and below it are three more U-shapes. All of these are also colored yellow.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

See below for two place name glyphs for Chimalpan. Below those are some additional ethnic affiliations that end in -ecatl, several with the place name having ended in -pan like this one.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro chimalpanecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Chimalpanecatl

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

U-shapes (any direction)

Keywords:

shields, rodelas, escudos, barrios, afiliación, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
pam(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
-ecatl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

una persona de Chimalpan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=376&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: