Calcoyametl (MH857v)

Calcoyametl (MH857v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Calcoyametl (perhaps “Pigsty”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a house or small building (calli). The roof appears to have thatching, which might suggest a building where pigs (coyametl) were kept.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A coyametl was a peccary, a wild boar originally. The Codex Mendoza (c. 1541) refers to a place name, Ixcoyamec, apparently known as a place where boars were guarded (see below). Furthermore, the state of Puebla produced the most (probably imported) pigs anywhere in New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [See this Google blog: “A Puebla Ham Holder, Not just for Pork Crackling,” https://artsandculture.google.com/story/a-puebla-ham-holder-not-just-for...

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pe ^o calcoyametl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Calcoyametl

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

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

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

thatched roof

Keywords:

puercos, jabalíes, ganadería, edificios, estancias, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
coyame(tl), a peccary, boar, pig, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coyametl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pocilga, o Porqueriza

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 857v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=787&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: