Ce Acatl (MH648v)

Ce Acatl (MH648v)
Simplex Hieroglyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph and notation for the personal name Ce Acatl is attested here as a man's name. While Ce Acatl can be a year name from the xiuhpohualli (year-count calendar), the more likely source is the tonalpohualli (day-count), which lent its day names and numbers to many children. This particular name, Ce Acatl, had illustrious associations with a Toltec leader and with the divine force of creation, Quetzalcoatl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
year name
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
green (light)
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
segmented
Keywords: 

días, fechas, dates, calendarios, calendars, tonalpohualli, nombres de hombres, men’s names

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

ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Uno Caña (o 1-Caña)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=379&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: 

Ce Acatl (MH558v)

Ce Acatl (MH614r)

acatl (CST42)