Comiyac (MH827v)

Comiyac (MH827v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Comiyac (literally, “Jug-Nose” or “Pot Nose”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph builds upon the face of the tribute payer himself, whose nose in this case has partially eaten by a work. A ceramic jug or pot (comitl) appears to the right of the tribute payer's head. It is a standard, round-bellied pot with three visible handles. The mouth is flared somewhat. A blackening inside the mouth of the pot suggests it is deep, and hatching along the side of it also gives it three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The missing nose (yacatl) may suggest that it was larger or otherwise notable (perhaps unpleasant) in some way. Cutting it out, seemingly intentionally, must have served as a later correction.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo comiyac

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Pedro Comiyac

Gloss/Text 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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Pottery, Earthenware
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
right to left
Keywords: 

narices, nariz, cerámica, nombres de hombres, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli

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

comi(tl), ceramic jug or pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
yaca(tl), a nose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

literalmente, Olla-Nariz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 827v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=729&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: 

comitl (Mdz13v)

Tlayacac (MH748v)

Yacatl (MH564r)

comitl (TK214v)