Chimalpepech (MH810r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the compound name Chimalpepech is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a right hand (maitl) reaching in from the left. Below the hand is a frontal view of a circular war shield (chimalli) with two horizontal black lines (one thin, above, and one thick, below) in the middle of the circle. Below these lines are three small U-shapes. The circle is completely surrounded with what might be small feathers. Longer feathers hang down from the bottom third of the shield.
Stephanie Wood
While the hand could be a phonetic complement for the -ma- in chimalli, it may serve either a phonetic or a semantic role in the second part of the name, -pepech. This remains to be elucidated further. The design of this shield is a common one, but one will find another U-shape above the double lines in some cases. Another typical design can be found on the bottom two examples, below.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
escudos, rodelas, manos, nombres de hombres
Chimalpepech, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalpepech
chimal(li), a war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
(un tipo de rodela)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=694st=image.
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