Zacapech (MH641r)

Zacapech (MH641r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the name Zacapech ("Bed of Straw," attested here as a man's name, derives from the noun zacapechtli (a bed of straw or hay). The glyph actually shows a profile of a seat (icpalli) made of woven reed (petlatl) material. Short lines emanate from the back rest and its seat, representing the hay or straw (zacatl) that forms the start of the name. A pechtli is a mat or rug made of petate.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tzacapech

Gloss Normalization: 

Zacapech

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Furniture
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
segmented
cross (x)
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

sillas, camas, zacate, petate, nombres de hombres

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
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 641r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=364&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: 

Zacapech (MH571r)