Coyotzinco (MH715v)

Coyotzinco (MH715v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the place name, Coyotzinco (perhaps "New Coyotlan," shows a coyote (coyotl) in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. The animal’s coat is elaborately textured and shaded, giving it a three-dimensional effect. It is in a seated position with its two front paws raised up. All four paws have sharp black claws. A speech scroll emerges from the animal’s mouth, a visual indicator that it may be growling. Its eye is open, and its teeth are showing.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Somewhat more attention to the animal's rear end suggests an effort to point to the -tzinco suffix (from tzintli, buttocks).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Coyotzinco.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Coyotzinco

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

syllable: tzin (from tzintli, buttocks)

visual sound

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Names (places)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Teeth Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

coyotes, animals, nombres de lugares, pueblos, altepetl, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

coyo(tl), coyote, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyotl
-tzinco, a spinoff community, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzinco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Nuevo Coyotlan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 715v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=509&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 period

Historical Contextualizing Image: