Acahual (MH509r)

Acahual (MH509r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acahual (here, attested as a man's name) shows eight blades of grass (acahualli) that are connected at the bottom.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The gloss provides the information that these are dry grasses (acahualli), which Molina conveys were an important fuel for ovens. The more common term for grasses (especially for fodder, for instance) is zacatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
acahual

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Acahual

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

grasses, hierbas, nombres de hombres

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

acahual(li), dry grasses, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acahualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hierbas Secas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 509r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=97&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Zacacatl (MH507r)

Zacacatl (MH513v)