Macuilcipac (MH665v)

Macuilcipac (MH665v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuilcipac (or Macuilli Cipactli, “Five Crocodile,” or “5-Crocodile”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a generic animal head in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. THis is meant to be a crocodile or crodocilian monster (cipactli). A connecting tether or line runs up from this head to a curving array of five (macuilli) short black lines, a notation.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note how different the cipactli head is from other examples (below) of the same calendrical day name.

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

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

day name

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

line connecting elements

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Religion (Indigenous)

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Weather, Climate

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

profile view

facing right

Keywords:

cocodrilos, caimanes, nombres de días, calendarios, fechas, tonalpohualli, animales, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

macuil(li), five, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuilli
cipac(tli), crocodile or crocodilian earth monster, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cipactli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Cinco Cocodrilo, o 5-Cocodrilo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 665v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=411&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:

"çi" for ci

Historical Contextualizing Image: