Coatl Itzon (MH852v)

Coatl Itzon (MH852v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Coatl Itzon (perhaps “The Serpent’s Hair” or “His Hair is a Serpent”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a serpent in profile, facing right. It has a coil in the middle of its body, a rattler on its tail, an open eye, and a protruding bifurcated tongue. On the top of the skin behind the snake’s head is a vertical clump of five or six strands of hair.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another compound hieroglyph in this collection bears the same gloss, but it has a different configuration. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po couatlitzō

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Coatl Itzon

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)
phrase or sentence
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

serpientes, víboras, culebras, pelo, cabello, nombres de hombres

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

coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
i- (third-person singular possessive pronoun), his/her/its, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Cabello del Serpiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 852v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=777&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: 
intrusive "u"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Coatl Itzon (MH735r)