Patzayatl (MH485v)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Patzayatl (here, attested as a man's name) has two elements. One is a cloak (ayatl), a piece of cloth with one knot, shown in a semi-profile view, with the tie at the back being on the right (which would mean the person wearing it would be facing left). The cloth has some curving lines that suggest a three-dimensionality. The other element in the compound is that the cloak is wet, so it has straight diagonal lines running across the cloth to suggest it is wet (patz).
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The various cloaks, blankets, and cloths in this collection can be tracked and compared. A few are provided below.
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pedro patzayatl
Pedro Patzayatl
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1560
cloth, tela, cloaks, tilmas, capas
patz, liquid, wet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/patz
ayatl, cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ayatl
Manta Mojada(?)
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 483r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&st=image.
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