Ocotlapanqui (MH508v)

Ocotlapanqui (MH508v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ocotlapanqui involves a horizontal piece of wood, apparently torch pine (ocotl) with lines across it suggesting multiple chops or cuts (with cut-up wood being tlapanqui). Above the piece of wood is a traditional Nahua axe or hatchet in a profile view (facing toward the viewer's right) with a curving wooden handle and a triangular blade (possibly copper or another metal that was introduced by Europeans) attached to the wood perhaps with sinew or a leather thong.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This could be a reference to an occupation, not just a name, if the man was associated with this activity in his work. On folio 785 verso of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco one will find the occupation ocotlapanqui, with a black oval object serving as the glyph. It has the look of perhaps black pitch or resin from the ocotl tree--?

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

thomas
ocotlpāqui

Gloss Normalization:

Tomás Ocotlapanqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Leather, hides

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

horizontal

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

triangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

torch pine, pinos, antorchas, hachas, madera, leña

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oco(tl), torch pine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocotl
tlapanqui, something broken, cut up, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapanqui

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

el ocote cortado

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 508v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=96.

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:

"g" for c, q, or x

"th" for t, d, or gd

Historical Contextualizing Image: