Cuauhtlatzacuilotl (MH520r)

Cuauhtlatzacuilotl (MH520r)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtlatzacuilotl (here, attested as a man's name) shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile and facing upward and, behind that, a rectangle with a diamond pattern (apparently a door, tlatzacuillotl). The eagle's beak is open and the feathers on the top and back of his head are spiky.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Juan José Batalla concludes that a door does stand behind the eagle head (which serves as a phonogram for the cuauh- of wood) in this hieroglyph, and, of course, the door is a European architectural introduction. See: "Análisis de elementos gráficos de contenido occidental en los glifos de los códices coloniales del Centro de México: el caso de los antropónimos nahuas," in El arte de escribir. El Centro de México: del Posclásico al siglo XVII, eds. Juan José Batalla Rosado and Miguel Ángel Ruz Barrio (Zinacantepec, Estado de México: El Colegio Mexiquense, A. C., 2018), 83.]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio guauhtlatzacuilotl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Diego Cuauhtlatzacuillotl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
cuil (general tracking)
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Birds
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood and Emily Mehler

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
diamond shape(s)
facing upward
profile view
rectangular
spiky
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Keywords: 

doors, puertas, eagles, águilas, nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas, men's names

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

cuauh(tli), eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
tlatzacuillo(tl), a wooden door, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlatzacuillotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Aguila-Puerta

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&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).

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