Tlacopanecatl (MH727v)

Tlacopanecatl (MH727v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing is a compound glyph for the ethnic identity, Tlacopanecatl (“Person from Tlacopan,” or from Tacuba, as it is spelled today). It shows a vertical group of sticks (tlacotl), or osier twigs. A hand reaching in from the left grabs the sticks. This may be a semantic indicator for the -e of -ecatl, indicating possession.

Description, 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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

manos, palos

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

Tlacopanecatl, someone from Tlacopan (Tacuba today), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacopanecatl
tlaco(tl), osier twigs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacotl
-ecatl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(una persona de Tlacopan o Tacuba)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 727v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=533&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlacopanecatl (MH634v)