Pantzilin (MH513r)

Pantzilin (MH513r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Pantzilin (perhaps "Banner Bell") is attested here as a man's name. It shows an upright banner facing toward the viewer's right. On the flag is a drawing of a flared bell in a European style. The bell has a loop at the top for hanging and a clapper emerging from the broad flare at the bottom of the bell. One horizontal line appears just above the bottom of the bell. The -tzilin part of the name comes from the verb, tzilini, to ring a bell.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph does not visually capture the sound of a bell ringing, which would be really interesting. The autonomous-era type of bell (coyolli) as shown on folio 44 recto of the Codex Mendoza (see below) has little sound scrolls coming out of the bottom. The coyolli (jingle bells) were usually small copper or gold bells, but this one for the verbs tzilini or tzilinia looks more like a church bell, showing Spanish influence. It has a wide mouth and a protruding clapper. The loop at the top does coincide with the loop of some of the coyolli bells, which could hang from jewelry or from a leather thong around ankles, for instance, when danced. Juan José Batalla Rosado (2018, 96) includes the various glyphs related to the verbs tzilini/tzizlinia in his study of visual loans, given that the iconography of these bells has been greatly influenced by exposure to European bells. He also points to the new occupation of bell ringer and its seeming neologisms tlatzilini or tlatziliniani (2018, 97).

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juao pātzilin

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Pantzilin

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
preterit tense
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inward (from outside in)
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

campanas, banderas, campanillas, pinjantes, metales, nombres de hombres

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

pani(tl), banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
tzilini, to ring a bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzilini

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 513r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=105&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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