Tzompan (MH784r)

Tzompan (MH784r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tzompan ("Skull Rack" is attested here as a man's name. The two parts of the glyph include the hair (tzontli) and the upright banner (panitl). Both are phonetic indicators.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps the writer suppressed the visual of a skull rack, owing to the colonial context where the friars would not have approved.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po tzōpā

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Tzompan

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
pa/pan/pal syllable from panitl
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Death, decay, decomposition
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous Christianity)
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
rectangular
spiky
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

banderas, pelo, estante de cráneos, nombres de hombres, tzompantli

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

tzon(tli), human hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli
pan(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
tzompan(tli), skull rack or tree, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzompantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hilera de Cráneos (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=642&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: 

Tzompan (MH873v)

Tzompan (MH627r)

Tzompan (MH652v)