Panchimal (MH878v)

Panchimal (MH878v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Panchimal (literally, “Flad-War Shield”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical, white, rectangular flag on a post. It is flying toward the viewer’s right. Above the flag is a war shield, circular with double curving lines horizontally cutting across it. Above these lines is one mark, and below it are three more–what seem to be U-shapes. Across the bottom part of the circle is a fringe. The fringe covers up part of the flag.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Panchimalco is a famous place name, such as the one in El Salvador, but there are some in Mexico, too. But if this person were from such a town or barrio, the name would have an affiliation suffix. This chimalli design is a common one, but there are many.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

thomas panchimal

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Panchimal

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
U-shapes (any direction)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

escudos, banderas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

pan(itl) or pam(itl), flag, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
chimal(li), war shield, or a symbol for war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

literalmente, Bandera-Escudo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 878v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=829&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: 

Panchimalco (HJ276:79:pt2:89r)