Metlacatl (MH491r)

Metlacatl (MH491r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the glyph for the personal name Metlacatl (literally, "Maguey-Person") features a branch (penca, in Spanish) of a maguey plant (metl). It is horizontal, pointing toward the viewer's right. It is covered with thorns or spines. The tlacatl (person) part of this name is not shown visually, although the name refers to a man (baptized Agustín), who is shown in the contextualizing image.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

There may be another translation for metlacatl that is eluding us here, and it may be a person from a place that might have been called Metlaco.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

augustin metlacatl

Gloss Normalization:

Agustín Metlacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

horizontal

spiny

Keywords:

magueyes, agaves

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

me(tl), maguey plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
tlaca(tl), a person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 491r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=61&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: