Itzcotecatl (MH500r)

Itzcotecatl (MH500r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnic identity, Itzcotecatl (“Person from Itzcotlan”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows two black, pointy pieces of obsidian blade (itztli). Below that is a face reminiscent of ecatl, air/breath, which may be a phonetic indicator for the suffix referring to affiliation (-tecatl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -tecatl ending on the "name" here suggests an affiliation with an altepetl or smaller settlement, hence the idea of the name showing an ethnicity, given that people identified most strongly with the settlement where they were born and grew up.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

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)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

profile view

pointed (see also spiky)

spiky

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

obsidiana, navajas, hojas, caras

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itz(tli), obsidian blades, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
-tecatl, a person from, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 500r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=79&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:

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: