Zacapechcatl (MH521r)

Zacapechcatl (MH521r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

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.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Estepā çacapechcatl

Gloss Normalization:

Esteban Zacapechcatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Art, Design, Crafts, etc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

woven

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

grasses, hierbas, straw, paja, hay, heno, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona del Petate de Paja

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=121&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

"p" for b, u, or v

Historical Contextualizing Image: