Cuatzon (MH522V)

Cuatzon (MH522V)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuatzon (“A Unique Hairstyle,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the tribute payer with an added thick lock of hair (-tzontli) standing up and curving over on top of his head (cua-).

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diegū quazon

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Cuatzon

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

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

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
Keywords: 

hair, cabello, pelo, warrior, guerrero, priest, sacerdote

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

cuatzon(tli), hair, including unique locks of hair worn by priests and warriors, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuatzontli
cua-, having to do with the human head,
tzon(tli), hair, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzontli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 522v, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=184&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: 

Temilo (MH513v)

tzontli (Mdz48r)

tzontli (TR21r)

tzontli (MH518v)

Quetzon (MH518v)

Cuatzontli (MH536r)

Cuatzon (MH615r)

Cuatzon (MH628v)