Aoc Xihue (MH681r)

Aoc Xihue (MH681r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Aoc Xihue (or Aocxihue, “No Longer the Possessor of Turquoise”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of three, upright, individual leaves. These must be from an herb plant (xihuitl), which could be literal or they could be a phonetic indicator for the homophone xihuitl that means turquoise. The "Aoc" part of the name is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The spelling of this name could also be Aocxiuhe or Aoc Xiuhe. In Hanns J. Prem’s publications (1967, 1974) of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, he regularized the spelling as Aocxihue. Another translation for xihuitl is "year," which might that translate as "No Longer a Year," or perhaps "Out of Time."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adverb
aoc
noun(s)
possessive suffix (-e)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
Keywords: 

hierbas, turquesa, posesivos, nombres de mujeres

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

aoc, no longer, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/aoc
xihui(tl), herbs, green things, turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
-e (possessive suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/e-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ya No Es Poseedora de Turquesas (o de Hierbas)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 681r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=442&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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xiuhnel (MH537v)

Xiuhnel (MH639r)

Xiuhnel (MH643r)

Xiuhnel (MH651r)

Xiuhnel (MH772v)