Cuauhtliztactzin (GDPO)

Cuauhtliztactzin (GDPO)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuauhtliztactzin (“White Eagle”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of an eagle (cuauhtli) in profile, facing the viewer’s left. The eagle wears a headdress with two white (iztac) feathers. The name is given in the reverential (with the -tzin suffix), but this high social status is not shown visually in the glyph, only implied in the contextualizing image.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See two other glyphs of the name Cuauhtliztac (not in the reverential), which represent men who do not have the same status as the individual named here.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Semantic Categories: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

blanco, águilas, nombres de colores, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Águila Blanco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Genealogy and Properties of the Descendants of Ocelotzin, 1580, https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:6d8ad557-0b45-41db-85b...

Image Source, Rights: 

No attribution (artist), Stendahl Art Galleries (Former owner), Huntington Art Galleries (Former owner). Genealogy and Properties of the Descendants of Ocelotzin - University of Texas Libraries Collections. 1580. Public Domain. https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/catalog/utblac:6d8ad557-0b45-41db-85b...

Orthography: 
Historical Contextualizing Image: