Zacacatl (MH625r)

Zacacatl (MH625r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for grasses (zacatl) doubles as the personal name, Zacacatl (here, attested as male). This cluster for grass, hay, or straw has one flower at the apex, and the plant has visible roots.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The man who bears this name may be from a place called Zacaco (today, Zacanco), given the presence of the -catl (ethnic affiliation) on the end of the noun zacatl. The "n" in Zacacatl and Zacanco would seem to be intrusive.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juseph
çacācatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Josef
Zacacatl

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
spiky
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

paja, pastos, malezas, heno, straw, hay, grasses, weeds, ethnicities, etnicidades, afiliación con un pueblo, nombres de hombres

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

zacancatl, someone from Zacanco, or a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacancatl
zaca(tl), grasses, weeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

(persona de Zacanco o un nombre personal)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 625r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=332st=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: 
"ç" for z or tz
"ph" for f, p, or b
"u" for o
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

zacatl (Mdz13r)

zacatl (CQ)