Zacapechcatl (MH521r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Zacapechcatl ("Person from Zacapechco") is attested as a man's name. The glyph has two basic elements. One is a bunch of grasses (such as hay or straw) (zacatl). And, these grasses are framed by vertical woven mats made from zacate (pechtli). The suffix (-catl) that refers to a person with this affiliation is not shown visually.
Stephanie Wood
Estepā çacapechcatl
Esteban Zacapechcatl
Stephanie Wood
1560
Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán
grasses, hierbas, straw, paja, hay, heno
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zaca(tl), grasses, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
pech(tli), a petate made of zacate, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pechtli
-catl, suffix showing affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl
Persona del Petate de Paja
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&st=image
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