Zanoc (MH525r)

Zanoc (MH525r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Zanoc (“Only Now,” or "The Fly," attested here as a man’s name) shows a bird's eye view of what seems to be a fly (zayolin). The fly has two wings, four visible legs, and a head with two eyes.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Is the fly meant as a semi-homophone for Zanoc? Or is the gloss wrong, and Zayol is meant as the person's name? This person is described in the gloss as a centecpanpixqui, a guardian over twenty tribute payers (i.e. taxpayers).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po. çāoc centecpapixq~

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Zanoc, Tecpanpixqui

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
homophony, rebus
Syntax: 
adjective
adverb
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

tributes, guardians, guardianes, veinte, tributarios, abejas, banderas, zan, oc, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

zan, only, just, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zan
zanoc, only now, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zanoc
oc, still, yet, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oc
zan no, also, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zan-no
zayol(in), a fly, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zayolin

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 525r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=129&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: 

Zaocnen (MH501r)

Zaocnen (MH624v)

Zaocnen (MH630r)