Cuitlapech (MH625v)

Cuitlapech (MH625v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuitlapech (perhaps "Excrement-Mat") is attested here as a man's name. On the left are small markings and circles that probably intend a reading of cuitlatl (excrement). To the right of that is a circular woven mat with signs of weaving around the perimeter and a blank center. To the right of this circle is a crescent-shaped woven mat that cradles the circular mat.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Another circular woven mat appears in the compound glyph for the place name Zacapechpan (MH662r).

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Cleanliness, Orderliness, and their absence

Gender (male)

Health, Medicine

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

woven

circle, circular or rounded

circle (half)

bird's eye view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

left to right

Keywords:

excremento, ano, redondo, petates de zacate, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuitla(tl), excrement, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlatl
pech(tli), rug, mat, foundation, flooring, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pechtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Excremento-Petate

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 625v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=333&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: