Coxcox (Verg7v)

Coxcox (Verg7v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Coxcox (“Pheasant,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of the head of a pheasant (cocoxtli) facing right. Below this is a ceramic pot (comitl) with three handles, a round jug, and a flared neck. The ceramic pot is there as a phonetic hint that the name begins with "Co-."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The coxcoxtli is a fairly rare bird, as is the cuixtli (see below). Eagles, egrets, turkeys, hummingbirds, etc., are much more common.

Coxcox was the personal name of a tlatoani of Culhuacan (Colhuacan), as seen in the Codex Boturini. [See: Lori Boornazian Diel, The Tira de Tepechpan (2009), 30.] He is also mentioned as the son of Acolmiztli in the Codex Xolotl. [See: Eduardo de J. Douglas, In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl (2012), 228.]

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juan coxcox

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Coxcox

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Ceramics, Pottery
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
facing right
frontal view
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

faisanes, pheasants, ollas, cantaros

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

coxcox(tli), a pheasant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coxcoxtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Faisán

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 7v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f22.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Coxcox (MH572r)

Coxcox (MH834r)

Cuixtli (MH515v)