Calpantlacayotl (MH680r)

Calpantlacayotl (MH680r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound Nahuatl hieroglyph for the personal name Calpantlacayotl (“Having the Nature of the People of Calpan”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a war shield with a nod to a combatant (yaotl) and a turtle (ayotl) underneath it. The turtle is just a phonetic indicator, being a near homophone to yaotl. The gloss tells us that the war shield relates to the people of Calpan, which is a Nahua community south and west of Huexotzinco. The two alternating footprints, possibly representing a road (otli) probably serve as a phonetic indicator for the -yotl in the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The suggestion is that the people of Calpan were warriors. In Book 2, folio 79 recto, of the Florentine Codex there is a reference to a day called “Calpan nemitilo,” when arrows were made “specifically for playing with them” (i.e., to practice shooting them). See a translation by León García-Garagarza, Digital Florentine Codex, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/2/folio/79r.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā. Calpātlacayotl.

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

homophony, rebus

personal name

phonetic dimensions

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

syllable: o (from otli, road)

syllables/two: ayo/yao (from ayotl, turtle)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Misc.

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Names (places)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inherent/internal/merged

Keywords:

guerreros, Calpan, flechas, tortugas, chimalli, escudos, nombres de hombres, topónimos, pueblos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

-tlaca, people of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaca-0
-yotl, having the nature of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

A Manera de la Gente de Calpan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 680r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=440&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:

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: