Zacaicpal (MH811v)

Zacaicpal (MH811v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Zacaicpal (“Zacate Seat”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a horizontal bundle that is tied in two places. The grasses that make up the bundle all lie in the same direction and are fairly wide, but little bits of grass also stick out all around the bundle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro çacaycpal

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Zacaicpal

Gloss 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

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Furniture

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

tied, bound, or bundled

frontal view

Keywords:

asientos, zacate, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zacaicpalli, a seat made from a bundle of weeds, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacaicpalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Asiento de Zacate

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 811v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=697&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:

"ç" for z or tz

Historical Contextualizing Image: