Zacapech (MH571r)

Zacapech (MH571r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zacapech (“Straw Bed,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of a rectangular wooden frame (tlapechtli) with straw or hay (zacatl) laid across it horizontally. A zacapechtli is a straw bed, with elements of both of these words.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

If it is not wooden, then it is a woven mat that is used as a bed. Presumably, a woven mat could also be covered with hay. But this example seems to have a wooden frame plus hay or straw.

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: 
Furniture
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
rectangular
striped
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

zacapech(tli), a bed of straw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacapechtli
pech(tli), a sleeping mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pechtli
tlapech(tli), a platform, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlapechtli
zaca(tl), straw, hay, grasses, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Cama de Zacate

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 571r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=221&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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