Chapol (MH563r)

Chapol (MH563r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chapol (“Grasshopper,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of a grasshopper (chapolin) facing toward the viewer's right. It shows four legs and two antennae. Its body is striped or segmented horizontally. Its wings have some vertical texturing. Its head is small and round with one visible eye. On its back is a white partial covering for the tops of the wings.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo chapol

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Chapol

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
facing upward
profile view
Keywords: 

insects, insectos, chapulines, grasshoppers

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

chapol(in), grasshopper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chapolin

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Chapulín

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 563r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=205&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: 

Chapol (MH519r)

chapolin (Mdz32r)

Chapol (MH753r)