Chamol (MH484v)

Chamol (MH484v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound glyph for the personal name Chamol has two principal elements. One is a home (chantli), which looks much like a house or other building, drawn with black lines and having largely right angles, except for a small angle at the back. The home is shown in profile, with the T-shaped opening or entry way facing the viewer's right. The other element is an upright scarlet parrot feather (chamolli) hovering over the entryway to the home.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The "chan" element is a phonetic indicator that this red feather is not simply an ihuitl (feather), but a scarlet parrot feather, which begins with "cham." Notice how the name Chamol is apocapated (shortened from chamolli). Red feathers of various kinds (e.g., cuezalin feathers) see the were highly prized, as were the green quetzalli feathers, and yellow parrot feathers (toztli) figure in a great many glyphs. The man who has this name has also been baptized, "Diego," which became his first name, while he kept his Nahua name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego chamol

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Chamol

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Feathers
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
red
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
rectangular
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
right to left
Keywords: 

houses, homes, casas, hogares, feathers, plumas

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

chan(tli), a home, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
chamol(li), scarlet parrot feather, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chamolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Pluma del Loro Escarlata

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 484v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=46&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: 

chamolin (FCbk8f65v)

chamolli (MH484v)

cuezalin (Mdz37r)

quetzalli (Mdz28r)

toztli (Mdz46r)

chantli (Mdz49r)