Cuauhtliztac (MH491v)

Cuauhtliztac (MH491v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuauhtliztac ("White Eagle") shows an eagle's head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. Its beak is open. The feathers on the perimeter of its head are spiky.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

alonso quauhtliztac

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Cuauhtliztac

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, feathers, plumas

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120) refers to this name, witnessed in a census from the Cuernavaca region (1535–45) as "poetic metaphor."

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=62&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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