Cuatlapanca (MH812r)

Cuatlapanca (MH812r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuatlapanca (perhaps “Cleft Skull”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human head in profile facing right. The hair is swept upward with a cleft or a large part dividing it into two points curving outward. This cleft may point to joints in the skull, if one can count on Molina’s translation of cuatlapanca.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the glyph below for tlapanic, which means something split. Perhaps this plays into cuatlapanca, referring to someone with a cleft in his head or a head cracked open.

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

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Hair (human or animal)
Names (places)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
Keywords: 

cráneos, hendido, pelo partido, nombres de hombres

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

cuatlapanca, the joints of the skull, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuatlapanca
cua-, having to do with the head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Cráneo Hendido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 812r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=698&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tlapanic (Mdz49r)