Tocpal (MH886r)

Tocpal (MH886r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tocpal (perhaps “Our Throne”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a seat with two visible legs, and sitting on the seat (icpalli) is part of a human body in profile, facing right. Visible is the body core and a leg. The possessive pronoun is not indicated visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See below for other examples of the icpalli. They can be very different from this one, although it is known in various manuscripts. Below is an icpalli made of petate, of straw, and of jaguar hide.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pilipe tocpal

Gloss Normalization: 

Felipe Tocpal

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Furniture
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

sillas, tronos, asentaderos, posesivo, nombres de hombres

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

icpal(li), seat of authority, throne, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icpalli
to- (first person plural possessive prefix), our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Nuestro Silla de Autoridad

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=844&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: 
"i" for e
"p" or "ph" for f, p, or b
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

in petlatl, in icpalli (Mdz68r)

Zacaicpal (MH811v)

Tecuanicpal (MH503r)