Cuentlan (MH497v)

Cuentlan (MH497v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or place of origin, Cuentlan (“By the Agricultural Field,” attested here as a man’s name), shows a square land parcel (cuemitl) divided diagonally. The upper right triangle has short lines suggesting cultivation. The lower left triangle is dark but also mottled.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Cuemitl is a term often employed to describe furrows and ridges, but the visual here is much like many of our tlalli glyphs.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
cuentlan

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cuentlan

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spotted or mottled
shading and parallel line hatching
rectangular
triangular
diagonal or angled
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

agricultura, farming, parcels, parcelas, chinampas, tierras

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

cuentlan, an agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuentlan
cuem(itl), furrow, cultivated field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuemitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Lugar de Chinampas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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: 
See Also: 

cuemitl (MH497v)

Cuentlacuilol (MH487v)

Cuemicuilo (MH514r)

Mocuemicuilo (MH521v)

Tlalli (MH499v)

Tlalli (MH644r)

Tlalli (MH832r)