Itzcotecatl (MH634v)

Itzcotecatl (MH634v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnic identity, Itzcotecatl (a person from Itzcotlan), is attested here as pertaining to a man. It shows a vertical row of five obsidian (itztli) points apparently protruding from a piece of wood. This wood is coming out of the top of a ceramic jug (comitl). This latter element could serve as a phonetic indicator.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

ytzcotecatl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Itzcotecatl

Gloss/Text 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)

syllable: co/con/com (from comitl, pot/jug)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Pottery, Earthenware

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

obsidiana, navajas, hojas, caras, ollas, jarras, fonetismo, men's names, nombres de hombres, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itz(tli), obsidian blades, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
-tecatl, a person from, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl
-co, locative suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co
-eca(tl), affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=351st=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).

Orthography:

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: