Zacacatl (MH513v)

Zacacatl (MH513v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Zacacatl (perhaps "One From Zacaco") here attested as a man's name) shows a clump of vertical grass or hay (zacatl) that has a circular binding at the base. The diagonal lines on the binding suggest that it is a cord (perhaps a mecatl). Below the binding may be small quill-like feathers, unless roots are intended.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The man who bears this name may be from a place called Zacaco (today, Zacanco), given the presence of the -catl (ethnic affiliation) on the end of the noun zacatl.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

antonio çacancatl

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Zacacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Feathers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Rope, cord

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Tributes, Taxation, Service

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

oval (see also leaf shaped)

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

roots are visible

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

grasses, hay, straw, hierbas, heno, paja

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

zaca(tl), grass, hay, straw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zacatl
-catl, a suffix indicating affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

una persona de Zacaco (hoy Zacanco)

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 513v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=106&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

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: