Azcaxochitl (MH742r)

Azcaxochitl (MH742r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Azcaxochitl (perhaps “Ant Flower”) is attested here as a woman’s name. It is a frontal view of a plant with lots of long curving leaves and, at the top, a small flower (xochitl, but given in the gloss as xochitli, perhaps a variant spelling).

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)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Flowers

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

Keywords:

hormigas, flores, nombres de mujeres, nombres famosos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Azcaxochitl, a famous name, and a name for a flowering plant with ant associations, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/azcaxochitl
azca(tl), ant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/azcatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hormiga-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 742r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=562&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: