Atl Popoca (MH634r)

Atl Popoca (MH634r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Atl Popoca (or Atlpopoca, attested here as a man's name) shows swirling (i.e. moving) water (atl) with curls of smoke (indicating the verb to smoke, popoca) coming up from the swirl.

Description, 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

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Religion (Indigenous)

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

diagonal or angled

bird's eye view

frontal view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Keywords:

agua, fuego, humo, flamas, espirales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

atl, water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
popoca, to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350st=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: