Zacapanecatl (MH594v)

Zacapanecatl (MH594v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zacapanecatl (“Person From Zacapan,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of an upright bundle of grass, straw, or hay. Some kind of white binding appears horizontally at about the middle of the bunch. A scroll curls out of this binding on the left side of the bundle. The reading of this scroll remains to be determined.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

domīgo çacapanecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Domingo Zacapanecatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing left

tied, bound, or bundled

vertical, upright

volute(s)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

grasses, hay, straw, fodder, pastos, heno, paja, forraje, nombres de lugares, etnicidad, volutas, place names, ethnicity

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grass or hay, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
-catl, suffix of affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de Zacapan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 594v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=268&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:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: