Tlacopan (MH602v)

Tlacopan (MH602v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlacopan (“At Place of the Sticks"). It is attested here as a man’s name, and it shows a flag or banner (panitl) with thirteen short black lines coming off of it, seemingly meant to recall sticks (tlacotl) for making arrows. The banner, which has a phonetic role, flies to the viewer's right. It is a rectangle on a vertical stick of wood.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This seemingly personal name could also be a place name (the predecessor to the name Tacuba). Perhaps this person was from Tlacopan. Normally, if this were the case, however, the name or ethnic designation would be Tlacopanecatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco tlacopā

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Tlacopan

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
phonetic dimensions
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
rectangular
spiky
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inward (from outside in)
Keywords: 

flags, banners, banderas, sticks, palos, ramitas, twigs

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

tlaco(tl), sticks from scrub bushes, useful for making arrows, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
-pan (locative suffix), in, on, at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En Las Ramitas, o En La Mitad, o En Medio (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 602v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=286&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: 

panitl (Mdz20r)

tlacotl (Mdz10r)

tlacotl (Mdz5v)