Zacapanecatl (MH711v)

Zacapanecatl (MH711v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Zacapanecatl (“Person from Zacapan”), shows a cluster of green grass (zacatl) above an M shape. This M has two upright yellow poles. Something red is attached to each of them and then drapes down to a point at the bottom in the middle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Other Zacapanecatl glyphs can have bound groups of zacatl with a volute emerging out from the binding. Their meaning is unclear. The glyph for Contecatl has a similar M-shape to it, but the only thing the Contecatl glyph has in common with this one is the affiliation suffix, -ecatl. Several glyphs for Tecpanecatl also have this M shape, and again, perhaps it is just the -ecatl suffix that these all have in common. That said, the way in which this M shape lends itself to -ecatl, is unclear.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

plantas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grasses, straw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Zacapan)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=501&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).

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