Chimalecatococ (MH647r)

Chimalecatococ (MH647r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful simplex glyph for Chimalecatococ (perhaps "Buried Shield Bearer"?) is attested here as a personal name or title, held by a man. The glyph features a circular shield, with golden perimeter made from a concentric circle. Inside is a thick, gray, Y-shape. Surrounding that is a red or pink color.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

juseph chimalecatococ

Gloss Normalization:

Josef Chimalecatococ

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

Syntax:

noun(s)

verb

preterit tense

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

War or Conflict

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

gray

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

tripartite

Keywords:

war shields, escudos, rodelas, rojo, gris, amarillo, enterrar

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chimal(li), shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
-ecatl, affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl-0
toco, to plant or bury, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Enterrado Portador de Escudo (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 647r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=376&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:

"ph" for f, p, or b

"u" for o

Historical Contextualizing Image: