Cuapatzac (MH668v)

Cuapatzac (MH668v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuapatzac (“Malformed Head”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a man’s head in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. The head (cuaitl) is asymmetrically shaped (patzactic).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

adjective

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

disabled, alterabled, discapacitado, cabeza, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

patzac(tli), something badly formed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/patzactli
patzactic, something badly formed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/patzactic
cua-, having to do with the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-0
cua(itl), the headhttps://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuaitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cabeza Malformada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=417&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: