Coatepoyotl (MH487v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coatepoyotl (here, attested as a man's name) shows the head of an animal in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It has long thin ears. Its visible eye is open. It has a small eyebrow above it. Its coat has some texturing lines, and its mouth and nose are black.
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The Coa- start to the name would suggest something to do with serpents. The -tepoyotl can refer to a public crier or an officer (see our dictionary entry).
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po covatepoyotl
Pedro Coatepoyotl
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1560
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animales, títulos, oficios, nombres de hombres
coatl, snake, serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl.
tepoyotl, a job, a title, or a name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepoyotl.
Serpiente-Pregonero
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&st=image.
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