Cima (MH623r)

Cima (MH623r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cima ("Wild Potato," from cimatl, an edible medicinal root, and attested here as a man's name) shows seemingly two symmetrical bulbous roots and two sprigs with leaves. Two small roots are vertical, appearing below the bulbs. The branches grow straight or bend to the viewer's left. The bulbs and the branches curve slightly.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Apparently, this is both a wild potato (cimatl) and a medicinal plant (cimapatli or cimapahtli, with the glottal stop), which has been abbreviated in the name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peDro
çima

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Cima

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
roots are visible
symmetry
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

plantas, medicinales, comestibles

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

cima(tl), a plant with an edible root, a wild potato, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cimatl
cimapahtli, a medicinal herb, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cimapahtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Raíz o Tubérculo Comestible

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 623r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=328st=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: 

Cima (MH520r)

Cima (MH531r)

Cimatl (MH575r)

Cimatlan (Mdz44r)

Cima (MH626v)

Cima (MH660r)