Cipac (MH737r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cipac (“Crocodilian Monster”) is attested here as a man’s name. It is a fully black animal in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. A leg and one paw are visible, and there is a tail that curves at the end.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
monstruos, animales, cocodrilos, nombres de hombres
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cipac(tli), crocodilian monster, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cipactli
Barranco
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 737r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=552&st=image
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