Pitzactli (MH677r)

Pitzactli (MH677r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pitzactli (“Thin and Long”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a thin, vertical rectangle, perhaps meant to be a stick, staff, or stripe.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps the baby given this name was unusually long and thin at birth. The morpheme -pitzac- appears in many words to describe long and thin things, including pieces of land, an irrigation channel, rivulets, blood vessels, stripes on textiles, staves of office, etc.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
striped
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
frontal view
Keywords: 

delgado, largo, nombres de hombres

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

pitzactic, something thin and long, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pitzactic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Delgado y Largo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 677r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=434&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: 

Tlilpitzac (MH717r)