Itzcotecatl (MH647v)

Itzcotecatl (MH647v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name, title, or ethnicity, Itzcotecatl ("One from Itzcotlan," attested here as referring to a man), shows a curving black obsidian knife (itztli). It is vertical, although the tip bends toward the viewer's right. The -co- and -tecatl parts of the ethnic label are not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As attested in our Online Nahuatl Dictionary, Manuel Orozco y Berra refers to hieroglyphs for this person, Itzcotecatl, as combining a piece of obsidian (itztli) and a ceramic pot (comitl), which is what we see below, coming from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco folio 643 verso. Otherwise, he said, Itzcotecatl was represented with just a symbol for obsidian, which is what we have here. Another example, below, from folio 500 recto, seems to include two obsidian blades (itztli) and a human face (presumably for -tecatl, the affiliation suffix). Thinking more about the comitl, and its root for combining (con-), could the place name have been Itzcontlan and the ethnicity have been Itzcontecatl? Searches for these names are not yet fruitful.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro ytzcotecatl xochi...

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Itzcotecatl, xochi...

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

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

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

vertical, upright

Keywords:

hojas de obsidiana, herramientas, armas, color negro, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Itzcotecatl, a person’s name, an ethnicity relating to a place called Itzcotlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itzcotecatl
itz(tli), obsidian blades, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
-tecatl, a person affiliated with a place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(etnicidad de una persona de Itzcotitlan)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=377&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: