Tlopan (MH755v)

Tlopan (MH755v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tlopan (perhaps “On the Raptor”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bird in profile, looking toward the viewer’s right. The bird (tlotli) appears to sit atop a flag (pamitl) that flies to the right. While perhaps this could be a flag covered with tlotli feathers, the abbreviation of the word for pamitl (-pan) could suggest that the flag is a phonetic indicator for a locative suffix.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This name is something like Tlocpa, but one might expect that to be possessed, and it is not possessed here.

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

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

animales, pájaros, rapaz, rapaces, banderas, nombres de hombres

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

tlo(tli), a falcon-like raptor, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlotli
pam(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pamitl
-pan (locative suffix) on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, En el Rapaz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 755v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=589&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).

Orthography: 
"l" for r
dropped "a"
Historical Contextualizing Image: