Coyolpantzin (MH711r)

Coyolpantzin (MH711r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name, Coyolpantzin (perhaps, “Bell Flag”), shows a frontal view of an upright, rectangular flag (pamitl) on a stick (probably wooden). In front of the flag (or perhaps on it) are two horizontal, yellow bells (coyolli). Each bell has a loop at the top from which it could be tied or hung. Each bell also has a intersecting horizontal and vertical lines, just visible behind the yellow paint. The color suggests that these are gold bells. The reverential ending (-tzin) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Other bells in this collection support the possibility of gold, but some also appear to be copper. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

tzin(tli) as reverential suffix

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flags, banners

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

frontal view

rectangular

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

front to back

Keywords:

campanillas, banderas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coyol(li), a small bell,, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyolli
pam(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
-tzin (reverential suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Campana-Bandera

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=500&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: