Ocelopan (MH525r)

Ocelopan (MH525r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ocelopan (perhaps, "On the Jaguar"), which is attested here as a man’s name. It shows the head of a jaguar (ocelotl) in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The jaguar head is spotted. Its visible eye is open. Below this head (and partially behind it) is an upright banner with a white rectangular flag, providing the phonetic indicator for the locative suffix -pan [from panitl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps Ocelopan is a place of origin and therefore a kind of ethnic label for this person rather than a personal name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

jua oçelopa

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Ocelopan

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Emily Mehler

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
spotted or mottled
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
front to back
Keywords: 

banderas, estandartes, jaguares, nombres de hombres

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

ocelo(tl), jaguar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocelotl
pan(itl), flag, banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En el Jaguar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

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

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: 

ocelotl (Mdz52r)

ocelotl (CQ)

Ocelotl (MH483v)

Ocelopan (Mdz2r)

Ocelopan (MH607v)