Coza (MH660v)

Coza (MH660v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coza (perhaps "Weasel") shows a small animal in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. Its front legs are raised as though it is in movement. Its teeth are bared. It has hatching on its back.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Given the propensity for the letter “n” to drop or be intrusive, it is difficult to say for certain whether this person’s name is Coza or Cozan. Furthermore, the dictionaries are vague as to how to translate either word. The animal associated with the glyph for Cozamaloapan (Codex Mendoza, f. 46 recto) has a black mask across his eyes, probably a weasel. Images of weasels and ferrets show that both of these small animals can have a dark marking across the eyes and over the nose, but the same is not true for lynxes or snow leopards. Ferrets have died out in Mexico today, but weasels are still found there.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo. coça.

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Coza

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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

linces, onzas, comadrejas, hurones, animales, nombres de hombres

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

coza(tli), weasel or ferret, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozatli
cozan(tli), lynx or snow leopard, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozantli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Comadreja, u Hurón

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 660v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=401&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Cozamaloapan (Mdz46r)