Acaquixti (MH733r)

Acaquixti (MH733r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Acaquixti (“Threw the Reed” or “Threw the Arrow”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a frontal view of an arrow (probably made from a reed, acatl), at an angle, getting through an upside-down U-shaped hoop seemingly imbedded in the ground. The arrow is segmented and has fletching near the upper end (on the right). It has apparently been thrown (quixtia) with the intention of getting it through the hoop.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Perhaps this act was part of a game, a competition, or perhaps a training in shooting or throwing arrows with precision.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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)

verb

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

frontal view

segmented

U-shapes (any direction)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Keywords:

tirar, flechas, competencia, juego, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
quixtia, to throw, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quixtia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Tiró la Flecha

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 733r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=544&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).

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