Ocelopan (MH607v)

Ocelopan (MH607v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Ocelopan ("Jaguar Flag" or "On the Jaguar") is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a vertical flag, flying toward the viewer's right. The flag is spotted.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps Ocelopan is a place of origin and therefore a kind of ethnic label for this person, if not really a personal name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
place name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Flags, banners
Gender (male)
Leather, hides
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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): 
inherent/internal/merged
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

jaguares, banderas, jaguars, nombres de lugares, 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: 

Jaguar-Bandera

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 607v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=297st=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: 

Ocelopan (Mdz2r)

Ocelopan (MH525r)

panitl (MH607v)