Cozol (MH727v)

Cozol (MH727v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyphs for the personal name, Cozol (“Crayfish”), shows a small animal in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. It appears to have a head and a mouth, legs, and a segmented back.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

One wonders whether names for small animals came about owing to the size and/or appearance of the baby that received the name. This collection includes a number of names for bugs or insects, for example (see below).

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: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
segmented
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

langostinos, crawfish, nombres de hombres

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

cozol(in), crayfish, crawdad, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozolin-1

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Langostino

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 727v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=533&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: 

Xalacatl (MH643r)

Yacapich (MH660v)

Tocatl (MH629r)

Tecpin (MH737v)

Xopanazcatl (MH659r)

Tecuici (MH670r)