Pitzotl (MH499v)

Pitzotl (MH499v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pitzotl ("Peccary," attested here as a man's name) shows the head of a peccary (pitzotl) in profile, facing the viewer’s right. Sharp teeth seem to protrude from the mouth. The animal's coat has some texturing. The animal looks more like a jaguar than a peccary .

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another pitzotl is found on MH folio 569 verso, and this one has a flat nose more like a pig. Juan José Batalla Rosado (2018, 110) suggests that this looks nothing like a pig and if it were not for the gloss we might analyze it differently. Pigs were a European introduction to the Americas, although there were some similar animals, such as the pizote, cuchuche, tejón americano, soncho, zorro juache o cuatl (Batalla, citing Lockhart 1999, 404, note 46). And see below for the coyametl. Here, the man who has the name Gaspar Pitzotl is a maker of woven mats, as can be seen in the contextualizing image. So, pig-raising is not his occupation.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

gaspar
pitzotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Gaspar Pitzotl

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

pigs, puercos, cochinos, cerdos, nombres de hombres

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

pitzo(tl), pig, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pitzotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Cerdo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=78&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: 

coyametl (Mdz51r)