Cuetlan (MH832v)

Cuetlan (MH832v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuetlan (perhaps "He Breaks Sticks") is attested here as a man's name. It shows two long vertical boards or sticks, one above the other. The ends are not jagged, as we might expect with "broken" versus "cut," if these were once one piece.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā cuetla

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Cuetlan

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
rectangular
symmetry
vertical, upright
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 832v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=739&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: 

Cuetlan (MH624r)

Tequequeloa (MH538r)