Coaxoch (MH796r)

Coaxoch (MH796r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coaxoch (literally “Serpent-Flower,” a plant name) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a flower with four petals and a small circle in the middle. The shape is something like a quincunx. Behind the flower is a horizontal serpent. It has stripes or spots on its body Its bifurcated tongue is protruding.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Women's names in this collection are rare compared to men's because married women and daughters are represented by the male head of household, the person responsible for most tribute payments. Notice how women's names often have a flower component (-xoch-), more often than men's.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ancatha covaxoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Ágata Coaxoch

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bifurcated
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
quincunx or quatrefoil
Keywords: 

serpientes, víboras, culebras, flores, plantas, nombres de mujeres

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

coa(tl), serpent or snake, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coatl
xoch(itl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Serpiente-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 796r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=666&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
intrusive "n"
intrusive "v"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Coaxoch (MH505r)

Coaxoch (MH765r)