Ixpantzinco (TV4r)

Ixpantzinco (TV4r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixpantzinco (“In Front Of," attested here as a man's name), shows a frontal view of a leaf-shaped eye (ixtli) painted in a European style. Above the eye is an upright white banner (panitl) flying toward the viewer's right. The reverential, locative suffix (-tzinco) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The two elements of this compound both have a phonetic role intending the word ixpan, which means "before" or "in front of," making it a fully phonographic compound. The man with this "name" also has another name, Martín Gutiérrez. In fact, if it were not for the nature of the glyph, one might have expected the "ixpantzinco" preposition to be referring to his location in front of someone of authority.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

yxpantzinco

Gloss Normalization: 

Ixpantzinco

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Teocaltitlan, San Pablo/Valeriano (TV)
Date of Manuscript: 

1574

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
phonetic dimensions
personal name
Syntax: 
preposition
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
frontal view
profile view
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

preposición, ante

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

ixpan, in front of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixpan
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-tzin, reverential suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Delante de

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

El Libro de los Tributos de San Pablo Teocaltitlan, also known as the Codex Valeriano and Manuscrit Mexicain 376, is hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, published on line in the digital resource, Gallica, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8455947h/f15.item.r=Libro%20de%20...

Image Source, Rights: 

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