Cuentlan (MH615v)

Cuentlan (MH615v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Cuentlan ("Agricultural Field") is attested here as a man's name. It is unclear why there is a man's head on the field, which is shown as a rectangle with diagonal furrows. Perhaps the tlacuilo wished to emphasize that this was not a tlalli or a milli (terms for other agricultural fields) but putting a near homophone (cua-, for head) on the land.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See other examples of cuemitl (stem: cuen-) 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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
horizontal
profile view
rectangular
shading and parallel line hatching
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

agricultura, farming, parcels, parcelas, chinampas, tierras, nombres de hombres

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

cua-, head, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cua-2
cuentlan, an agricultural field, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuentlan

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 615v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=313&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: 

Cuentlan (MH497v)

Cuentla (MH704r)

Cuenpa (MH669r)

Cuencuech (MH714r)