Cocoliz (MH758v)

Cocoliz (MH758v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cocoliz (short for cocoliztli, here meaning perhaps "Disease" or "Pestilence") is attested here as a man's name or perhaps the state of his health.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

To give a baby this name raises the question as to whether he was a sickly baby.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Death, decay, decomposition
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

pestilencia, enfermedad, epidemia, muerte, cráneo, nombres de hombres

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

cocoliz(tli), illness, pestilence, disease, or epidemic, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cocoliztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pestilencia

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 758v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=595&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: 

Cocoliz (MH776v)

miqui (Mdz43r)

miquiztli (TR8r)

Miquiz (MH518r)

tepatia (CST39)

cocoxqui (Osu6v)

Cocoxqui (MH848v)

Cocoliztli (MH638v)

tlama (MH843r)

tlama (MH833v)

tlama (MH833v)

ticitl (CST39)