Tizapanecatl (MH762r)

Tizapanecatl (MH762r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tizapanecatl (“Person from Tizapan”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a curvy rope (mecatl) associated with two vertical posts. The way the rope drapes across the posts is reminiscent of an M-shape.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph diverges greatly from the other, more phonetic example in this digital collection (see below). But this glyph is much like several glyphs for Tecpanecatl. Perhaps the visual they have in common represents the -panecatl ending of these names. The sign for Contecatl (also below) is something like this one in that it involves a rope. The cord or rope (mecatl) is something of a homophone for these names for affiliations.

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)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Rope, cord

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

M-shapes

frontal view

Keywords:

sogas, postes, pilares, tiza, nombres de personas, nombres de lugares, pueblos, etnicidades

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

tiza(tl), chalk, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tizatl
-pan (locative suffix) on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
-ecatl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Tizapan)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 762r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=602&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).

Orthography:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: