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Sign Type
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Simplex Glyph
Compound Glyph
Atomic Glyph
Notation
Iconography
Glyph Name:
Is equal to
Contains
Contains any word
Contains all words
Starts with
Ends with
Any Field Contains ...
Cultural Content:
- Any -
Aging (People, Things)
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Appearance
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Art, Crafts
Beverages
Blood (human/animal/plant)
Cardinal Directions, Cosmos
Celestial Phenomena
Ceramics, Pottery
Children, Childhood, Adolescence
Chocolate, Cocoa, Cacao
Cleanliness, Orderliness, and their absence
Cochineal (nocheztli)
Color names
Corn, Maize
Crime, Punishment
Death, decay, decomposition
Dirt, Sand, Soil
Dreams, Visions
Education, Knowledge, Wisdom
Emotions
Face Paint or Tattoos
Family, Kinship, even Friendship
Feathers
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Flags, banners
Flowers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Furniture
Gender (female)
Gender (less obviously marked)
Gender (male)
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Hair (human or animal)
Health, Medicine
Humor
Hunting and Fishing
Imperialism (Indigenous)
Intoxicating drugs, hallucinogens
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Labor Issues
Land Tenure, Land Issues
Landscape Features
Leather, hides
Legal Matters, Documents
Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Measurements, Quantities
Metals, Mining
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Moieties or double place names
Money, Coins, Prices
Mouth/Beak Open
Movement
Music, Song, Dance
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Names (places)
Numbers, Math
Occupations
Paper
Personality, Behavior
Plants, Flora
Politics, Power, Governance
Protest, Resistance
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Religion (Christian)
Religion (Indigenous Christianty)
Religion (Indigenous)
Rubber
Sacrificial Offerings
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Sensory Perception
Sexuality, Fertility
Shells
Slavery
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Sports, Games, Leisure
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, etc.
Theater, Drama
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Toys
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Tributes, Taxation, Service
Turquoise or Jade
War or Conflict
Water
Weapons, Shields
Weather, Climate
Wood, wooden things
Writing, Literacy
Manuscript:
- Any -
AGN Hospital de Jesús, leg. 208, exp. 2
AGN Hospital de Jesús, leg. 276, exp. 79
AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, fol. 108
AGN Tierras 1735, exp. 2, fol. 109
AGN Tierras 1871, exp. 1
Aubin, Codex
Beinecke Map (BMap)
Cempohuallan, RG Map of
Chavero, Codex
Florentine/Florentinus, Codex
Huexotzinco, Codex
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Ixtlilxochitl, Codex (CIx)
Magliabechi, Codex (Mgb)
Marquesado del Valle, Codex (MdelV)
Mendoza/Mendocino, Codex
Mexicanus, Codex
Mochitlan, RG Map of
Oztoticpac Lands Map
Peregrinación, Tira de (TP)
Quetzalecatzin, Codex (CQ)
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Tepechpan, Tira de
Tepetlaoztoc, Codex (aka Kingsborough) (TK)
Tolteca-Chichimeca, Historia
Vergara, Codex
Xolotl, Codex
Syntax Category
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"aoc"
adjective
adverb
conjunction: -on- or -om- (visual)
diminutive (in gloss/text)
diphrasism (visual)
full set of teeth (but not -ti-)
hua (grasping hand), logogram
hua (leaves), phonogram
hua (two thick vertical lines), phonogram
huei (many marks)
indefinite "ayac"
indefinite "te"
indefinite "tla"
indefinite reflexive "ne"
ligature -ti- (visual)
locative (not visual)
locative (visual but silent)
locative (visual not silent)
neologisms (visual, glyphic)
noun(s)
passive tense
person (first, plural)
person (third, singular)
phrase or sentence
pluralization (visual or textual)
possessive pronoun or syllabogram
preposition
pronoun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
tzin(tli) as reverential suffix
tzin(tli) as spinoff settlement suffix
verb
visible fragrance or odor
visible movement
visible sound
writing: atomic logogram
writing: atomic phonogram
writing: atomic pseudo-logogram
writing: compound fully logographic
writing: compound fully phonographic
writing: compound phonogram & logogram
Semantic Category
- Any -
allograph
calendrics
day name
deity name/theonym
glyph not to be read literally
graphic syllepsis
homophony, rebus
month name
numbers
personal name
phonetic dimension(s)
place name
polyvalence
semantic complement
semantic indicator
syllable
title/office
year name
Shapes
- Any -
bell-shaped (and upright)
bell-shaped (on its side)
bent
bifurcated
bird's eye view
bound, tied, bundled
boxed in
checked, checkered, or mesh
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
circle, circular or rounded
containment of an element
crenelated
cross (+)
cross (x)
cross-sectioned object
curving, curvy, curved
diagonal or angled
diamond-shaped or shapes
diminutive (visual)
disarray
dotted, granular, textured
elevation view
emphasis/exaggeration (relative, intentional)
facing downward
facing left
facing right
facing upward
feathery
flared
frontal view
half circle
horizontal
leaf (pointed oval)
linear
marquise
mosaic
oval
pointed
profile view
pyramidal
quincunx or quatrefoil
rectangular
right angle(s)
roots (of plants, visible)
S-shapes (any direction)
scalloped edges
segmented
shading
shine, sparkle, shimmer, brilliance
size (relative, intentional)
spiky
spiny
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
spotted or mottled
stepped
striped
superimposition of an element
symmetry
T-shapes
thatched
three-dimensionality
trapezoidal
triangular
tripartite
twisted, entwined
U-shapes (any direction)
vertical, upright
volute(s)
wavy
woven
wrinkles
zigzag
Colors
- Any -
black
black & white drawing (no color)
blue (sky blue)
blue (turquoise)
brown
gray
green (dark)
green (light)
orange/terracotta
pink
purple
purple (light)/lavender
red
tan
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Number of Elements
- Any -
1
2
3
4
5
Other / Comments
Compound Glyph Reading Order
- Any -
inherent/internal/merged
downward
upward
back to front
front to back
left to right
right to left
outward (from inside out)
inward (from outside in)
multidirectional
undetermined as yet
Outside Influences
- Any -
Mixtec
Oaxacan
Otomí
Spanish/European
Huaxtec
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