Chicomacatl (MH841r)

Chicomacatl (MH841r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the personal name Chicomacatl (”Seven-Reed” or “7-Reed”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows four (nahui, interestingly, not seven, which would be chicome or chicon-), segmented, vertical reeds or canes (acatl) that look much like bamboo or what is called carrizo in Mexican Spanish.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a calendrical name. Acatl is both a year and a day sign, but children were typically named for the day sign upon which they were born, drawing from the religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli. Another interesting thing about the name Chicomacatl is that it also referred to a medicinal plant.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

biçete chicomacatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Vicente Chicomacatl

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: 
calendrics
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

plantas, cañas, calendarios, números, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
acatl, reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
chicomacatl, a medicinal plant, also a calendrical name, Seven-Reed or 7-Reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicomacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Siete-Caña, o 7-Caña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 841r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=756&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: 
"b" for v or u
"çe" for ce
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chicome Acatl (Mdz2r)