Tzompach (MH686v)

Tzompach (MH686v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tzompach (perhaps “Hair [Like] Chaff,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. His black hair is both messy and of somewhat different lengths.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Messy or matted hair could have more significance than simply relating to grooming practices. Mexicolore has a short essay on this topic written by Ian Mursell, who draws from the work of art historian Cecelia F. Klein. The term tzompachpol, found in the Florentine Codex, has associations with bad behavior toward elders and authority figures.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

augustin çōpach

Gloss Normalization: 

Agustín Tzonpach

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood & Jeff Haskett-Wood

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

pelo, cabello revuelto, paja, desordenado, nombres de hombres

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

pach(tli), hay or plant refuse, chaff, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pachtli
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Cabello-Paja

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 686v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=453&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: 

Cuatzontli (MH536r)

Cuatzon (MH615r)

Cuatzon (MH628v)

pachtli (Mdz47r)

pachtli (Mdz13v)

Papaitl (MH522v)