Colicatl (MH759r)

Colicatl (MH759r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Colicatl (perhaps “Field Worker," attested here as a man’s name) shows a hook that curves to the right at the top. This curving line seems to provide the phonetics for Coli- (colli, bent). The suffix of affiliation (-catl) is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The term colicatl can be found in Book 10 of the Florentine Codex, where it is left untranslated but appears in a discussion of wheat farming and people with tlalli and milli (agricultural fields). Perhaps field workers tend to become hunched over as a result of their back-breaking work in the fields, and this gives them the name of "bent."

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 phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Labor Issues
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

campesinos, espaldas encorvadas, nombres de hombres, curved, curva, curvo, bent, doblado, doblada, person, persona, peón, trabajadores de campo

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

col(li), curved or bent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/colli-1
-catl (affiliation suffix), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Campesino (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 759r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=596&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: 

Colicatl (MH580v)