Chicomaca (MH648v)

Chicomaca (MH648v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Chicomacatl (or "Chicome Acatl," "Seven Reed" or 7-Reed) is attested here as a man's name. The compound includes a pot (comitl), a phonetic indicator for the number seven (chicome). The reed (acatl) is vertical, yellow, and segmented. It has two green leaves. The reed stands in the pot.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This is a calendrical name from the 260-day religious, divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli. If not specifically referring to the calendar, the name can also refer to a medicinal herb called chicomacatl, which probably still also has associations with the calendar. Originally, a calendrical name such as this would have shown the number seven in a notation of dots. Perhaps to disguise that this was a calendrical name, the pot takes the place of the notation.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juā chicomaca

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Chicomaca

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

calendrics

numbers

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Ceramics, Pottery

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Plants, Flora

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

green (light)

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

segmented

vertical, upright

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Keywords:

cerámica, plantas, cañas, días, fechas, calendarios, tonalpohualli, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Siete Caña, o 7-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: