Chimal (MH490r)

Chimal (MH490r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of a simplex glyph for the personal name Chimal shows a war shield (chimalli) with a classic cuexyo design. The shield is round with two parallel curving lines running from right to left. Symbols appear above and below these lines.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

filipe chimal

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Felipe Chimal

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 
1560
Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
Keywords: 

cuexyoh, rodelas, escudos, shields, nombres de hombres

Museum/Rare Book/Realia Comparisons: 
Museum/Rare Book/Realia Notes: 

This is a reproduction of a late Post-Classic Nahua war shield covered in jaguar skin and feathers in the cuexyo design with curving lines, one U-shape above these lines, and three U-shapes below. Museo Nacional de Historia, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City. Photograph by Stephanie Wood, 29 April 2025.

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

chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Escudo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 490r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=59&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: 

cuexyo (Mdz19r)

cuexyo (Mdz49r)

Chimalman (MH633r)

chimalli (FCbk6f212r)