Tlacapan (MH489v)

Tlacapan (MH489v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black line drawing of a compound glyph stands for a personal name, Tlacapan. It has two obvious elements. One is a person (tlacatl) and the other is a banner (panitl). The person is shown only with a head, in profile, looking to the viewer's right. It seems to be a male with little hair on his head. The banner is upright, narrow, and rectangular, attached to a post or pole.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The translation of tlacapan could be: "côté, flanc, versant, pente" (A. Wimmer, 2004, as quoted in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, meaning "slide, flank, or slope"). But that sounds more appropriate for a place name than a personal name. So, the definitive translation is pending. The contextualizing image shows that this name is held by a man in this case. He also has a Christian baptismal name, while retaining his Nahua name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Heujotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

tlaca(tl), a person, here, a man, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacatl
pan(itl), a banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
tlacapan, side, flank, slope, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacapan

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 489v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=58&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: