Nacazpatlac (MH627r)

Nacazpatlac (MH627r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Nacazpatlac ("He Has Flat and Wide Ears") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph is a frontal view of what appears to be a flat and side (patlactli) ear (nacaztli), as the name suggests.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Diego
nacazpatlac

Gloss Normalization:

Diego Nacazpatlac

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:

adjective

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Measurements, Quantities

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

size (relative, intentional)

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

orejas, anchas, planas, ears, wide, flat, upright, vertical, anatomy, anatomía, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

nacazpatlac, large eared, to have large ears, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nacazpatlac
nacaz(tli), ear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nacaztli
patlactic, flat and very wide, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/patlactic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tiene Orejas Anchas y Planas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 627r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=336&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: