Icnotlacatl (MH490v)

Icnotlacatl (MH490v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This is a black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Icnotlacatl ("Poor Person"). The glyph shows a man (tlacatl) with tears running down his face, suggesting emotion. The man is just a head shown in profile, looking to the viewer's right. We know this is a man because of the way he wears his hair just below his ear and with bangs on his forehead. Also, the contextualizing image shows that he has a baptismal name, Blas.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

An icnocihuatl is a widow, so perhaps this could also be interpreted to be a widower. Note the glyph for cahualli, which also means widow, below. She has tears coming down her cheek, drawn as the glyph for water. Emotion is also shown in the glyph for Aoctocniuh (below).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

plaas ycnotlacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Blas Icnotlacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Emotions

Gender (male)

Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

tristeza, lágrimas, sadness, tears

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

icnotlaca(tl), poor person, humble person, or orphan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icnotlacatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 490v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=60&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: