Itzcoatl (MH751r)

Itzcoatl (MH751r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Itzcoatl (perhaps "Obsidian-Blade Serpent") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a semi-coiled snake (coatl) with spotted skin, a rattler tail, and a protruding bifurcated tongue. Its head is in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. Coming off the body are about five triangular obsidian blades (itztli).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

antonio ytzcovatl

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Itzcohuatl

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)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Tongue Protruding/Noticeable

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

obsidiana, piedras, navajas, cuchillos, serpientes, culebras, víboras, serpents, snakes, knives, flints, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itz(tli), obsidian, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
coa(tl), snake or serpent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Serpiente de Obsidiana, o Navaja-Culebra

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 751r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=580&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

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: