Cuauhtecpa (MH843r)

Cuauhtecpa (MH843r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtecpa (perhaps "Eagle Flint Knife"). The eagle's visible eye is open, as is its beak. The feathers on its neck and on the top of its head are spiky. In the eagle's mouth is a flint knife (tecpatl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This compound, if read correctly, is entirely logographic. An alternative might be Cuauhtecpan (from cuauhtecpantli, wooden grill). If the latter, the eagle (cuauhtli) would serve as a homophone for wood (cuahuitl), and the flint knife (tecpatl) as a near homophone for tecpantli. If this is the correct reading, then the compound is fully phonographic.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe^o quauhtecpā

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Cuauhtecpa (or Cuauhtecpan)

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

homophony, rebus

personal name

phonetic possibilities

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Feathers

Gender (male)

Mouth/Beak Open

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

striped

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

águilas, cuchillos, nombres de hombres, rejas de madera, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuauh(tli), eagle and/or a large hawk in general, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tecpa(tl), flint knife, obsidian knife, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpatl
tecpana, to put things in a row, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpana
tecpan(tli), a group of twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecpantli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 843r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=760&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:

"q" for c

Historical Contextualizing Image: