Amaxoch (MH714r)

Amaxoch (MH714r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Amaxoch (“Paper Flower”), shows a rectangular piece of paper (amatl), and a hand (maitl) holding an obsidian blade, perhaps preparing to cut the paper into the shape of a flower (xochitl). The hand and cutting instrument are perhaps meant only to have a semantic value, but the hand could also be a phonetic complement for the -ma- in amatl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See several additional Amaxoch glyphs, below. The flower shapes do support a “paper flower” reading. Some are just blank paper, ready for cutting.

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Paper
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

papel, flores, nombres de mujeres

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

ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
xoch(itl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flores de Papel

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 714r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=506&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: 

Amaxoch (MH644r)

Amaxoch (MH746v)

Amaxoch (MH887v)

Amaxoch (MH795v)