Atlix (MH521v)

Atlix (MH521v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of a compound glyph for the personal name Atlix (here, attested as a man's name) literally translates as Water-Eye. The glyph shows five streams of water (atl) coming down from an open human eye (ixtli). The water streams are triangular, getting narrower as they descend, and there is a small round circle, probably a droplet, at the end of each stream. A single line of current or flow runs down the middle of each stream.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This human eye differs from the design of the eye glyph found in this manuscript's writing of Tlamao, and it is different from the starry eyes of the Codex Mendoza. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo atlix

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Atlix

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood and José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
triangular
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

eyes, ojos, water, agua, nombres de hombres

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

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Agua-Ojo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 521v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=122&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: 

Tlamauh (MH486v)

ixtli (Mdz21v)

Atlix (MH733r)