Cacama (MH526r)

Cacama (MH526r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cacama (“Small Ear of Corn,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a maize plant that has two small ears of corn (cacamatl) growing on the left side of the stock. The plant also has two leaves and a tassel. Despite the translation of the term cacamatl, these cobs do not appear to be especially small.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro.cacama.

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cacama

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

cobs, maize, corn, maíz, ears

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

cacama(tl), small cobs of corn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cacamatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mazorca Pequeña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=131&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: 

Olchical (MH501r)

cintli (Mdz49r)