Coyolpan (MH779v)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coyyolpan (perhaps “Banner [of] Bells”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical row of three small bells in a profile view, facing toward the viewer’s right. The bells have double parallel lines across their middle and a hole at the tip for sound to emerge from the clapper (not seen). The bells seem to be attached to a vertical piece of wood that gives an impression of a flag (pamitl) handle.
Stephanie Wood
The -pan suffix to this name could either refer to the flag or it could be a locative suffix (telling where). Locatives typically come at the end of place names. But this is a personal name. So, perhaps this fact lends weight to the reading of Bell Banner over At the [Place of the] Bells. Another name, below, shows how a glyph for the same name Coyolpan–but in the reverential, Coyolpantzin–makes the banner more obvious. The name Pantzilin also shows a bell on a banner, lending further credence to the possibility of bells on banners in the case of Coyolpan.
Stephanie Wood
diego/coyolpan
Diego Coyolpan
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
bells, campanas pequeñas, campanillas, cascabeles, jingle bells, nombres de hombres
coyol(li), a small bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli
-pan (locative suffix), on or in, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
pan(itl) or pam(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
Bandera de Campanillas
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 779v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=633&st=image.
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