Cuitlapantzon (MH747r)

Cuitlapantzon (MH747r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound personal name for Cuitlapantzon (perhaps “Hairy Back”) shows a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He is nearly naked, but a white belt from a loincloth is visible. Coming up his back (cuitlapantzontli) from his bottom are many straight, black lines, suggestive of hair (tzontli). But it also comes out from his buttocks, in a way reminiscent of excrement (cuitlatl). Thus, this compound is both logographic and phonographic.

Description, 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: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Nudity
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

pelo, espalda, taparrabos, excremento nombres de hombres

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

cuitlapantzon(tli), hair, or the backbone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlapantzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Espalda Peluda (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 747r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=572&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: