Cempohualtecatl (MH758v)

Cempohualtecatl (MH758v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

Description: This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Cempohualtecatl ("One from Cempohuallan"), is attested here as referring to a man.

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:

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Occupations

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

facing right

profile view

shading and parallel line hatching

Keywords:

etnicidades, afiliación, pueblo, veinte, números, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cempohual(li), twenty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cempohualli
-tecatl, affiliation suffix relating to place, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

una persona de Cempohuallan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 758v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=595&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).

Orthography:

"u" for o

dropped "m"

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: