Cozamalotl (MH497v)

Cozamalotl (MH497v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cozamalotl (“Rainbow,” attested here as a man’s name) shows five wavy, upright, black lines. They are connected with a curving line at the bottom.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
coçamalotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cozamalotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
linear or multiple straight lines
profile view
wavy
Keywords: 

arcoiris

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

cozamalo(tl), rainbow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozamalotl

Additional Scholars' Interpretations: 

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 120), witnessed the personal name Cozamalocatl in censuses of the Cuernavaca region (1535–1545) and translated it "Rainbow Inhabitant."

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 497v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=74&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: