Chalcaoc (MH564v)

Chalcaoc (MH564v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chalcaoc (“Pulque of Someone from Chalco,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a two-part cup with a bowl and an inverted base. The cup has a horizontal line drawn just below its lip. Small circles cluster and slightly overflow the top of the cup. These circles could represent precious green stones (chalchihuitl), or perhaps they are bubbles coming up from the foaming pulque beverage (octli) that could be inside the cup.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The cup appears to be a xicalli; at least there is a similar one from the Codex Mendoza. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

aloso chalcaoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Chalcaoc

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: 
Beverages
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Foreigners/Others
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
foamy, frothy, bubbly
frontal view
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

beverages, bebidas, pulque, cups, tazas, ethnicities, etnicidades

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

Chalca(tl), someone from Chalco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalcatl
oc(tli), pulque (beverage), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/octli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Pulque de Alguien de Chalco

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 564v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=208&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: 

octli (Mdz44r)

octli (Mdz65r)

octli (Mdz71r)

octli (Mdz71r)

Chalchihuitl (MH491r)

xicalli (Mdz68r)