Cuetlan (MH624r)

Cuetlan (MH624r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Cuetlan ("Broken Long Sticks"?), is attested here as a man's name. It shows two vertical sticks, one above the other, both of equal size. Their shape is a long thin rectangle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Domas
Cuetlan

Gloss Normalization: 

Tomás Cuetlan

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
symmetry
rectangular
vertical, upright
frontal view
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

sticks, palos, madera, vertical, estrecho, plural, dos, nombres de hombres

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

cuetlania, to break sticks or long things, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuetlania
Cuetlan, a personal name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuetlan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Quebrar Palos

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 624r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=330st=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: 

Cuetlan (MH832v)