Cozcatetl (MH826r)

Cozcatetl (MH826r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cozcatetl (“Bead Necklace” or “Necklace Beads”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a necklace (cozcatl) with a horizontal string of three beads (tetl). The ends of the cord are loose and not really long enough to tie the necklace on a human neck. But the suggestion of a necklace is there.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

As shown in some of the glyphs involving necklaces below, they are beads most often, but they can also be strings with corn cobs, shells, bells, a pendant ring, or even a piece of wood to hold onto or tie up an enslaved person.

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 logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Rope, cord

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0
te(tl), stone, egg, gem, counter, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Collar de Cuentas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 826r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=726&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).

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