Atle Icuauh (MH829v)

Atle Icuauh (MH829v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Atle Icuauh (perhaps “He Has No Wood”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bundle of five horizontal pieces of wood (cuahuitl) tied vertically in two places, and there is a curving woven rope handle for carrying the wood. This may be firewood. The negative part of this name (atle, nothing) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Cuahuitl can be tree, trees, or wood, and it can be trunks, branches, or pieces of firewood. The size of the bundle in this case appears to be wood that might be used in building a fire. It has probably been cut and shaped by a cuauhxinqui (wood cutter or carpenter).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā atleyquauh

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Atle Icuauh

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

atle (negated quantifier or qualifier)

noun(s)

phrase or sentence

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

horizontal

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

leña, madera, liada, atada, falta, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, No Tiene Leña

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 829v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=733&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:

"q" for c

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: