Ocelopan (Mdz2r)
This compound glyph for the place name Ocelopan (perhaps "On the Jaguar"), consists of a flag (panitl) made from ocelotl) (jaguar) skin. The flag flies to the viewer's left from a vertical wooden (terracotta-colored) staff or pole. The flag supplies the phonetic element of the locative suffix -pan, "in" or "on."
Stephanie Wood
Ocelopan would appear to be a place name, and it is attached to a ruler named Acacitli on folio 2 recto. But, on the same page, there is another ruler who has the gloss of the name Ocelopan on his cloak. The positioning of these glosses on the cloaks of the other figures on the page suggests that a personal name is indicated. The figure glossed Ocelopan actually has the personal name glyph Acacitli above and to the left of his head. So, it appears that the glosses for these two men were inadvertently switched, and Ocelopan is a personal name.
Stephanie Wood
by 1553 at the latest
Stephanie Wood
Codex Mendoza, folio 2 recto, https://codicemendoza.inah.gob.mx/inicio.php?lang=english
Original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1; used here with the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0)
