Matlapal (MH524v)

Matlapal (MH524v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Matlapal is attested here as a woman’s name. It shows a frontal view of a (right) hand (maitl) with thumb and fingers extended. Behind the hand are two wings (tlapalli) painted pink or light red.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The diphrasis, cuitlaplli atlapalli, tail(s) and wing(s), refers to the common people who were looked after by their rulers. These terms were often possessed in relationship to said rulers (the people under the protection of your tail and wings, mocuitlapil, matlapal). (See: vol. 1, note 38, page 137 in Sell and Burkhart, Nahuatl Theater, 2004.) So this woman has that association with the protection of wings. The hand in the glyph is a phonetic indicator.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ana matlapal

Gloss Normalization: 

Ana Matlapal

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Colors: 
pink
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
atlapal(li), a leaf or a wing, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atlapalli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 524v, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=128&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: 
See Also: 

Tentlapal (MH669v)