Cuezcon (MH676r)

Cuezcon (MH676r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuezcon ("Granary") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a tall grain storage container (cuezcomatl) sitting on a structure, perhaps wooden. These structures usually contained corn. The exterior seems to be thatched.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The apocopation of cuezcomatl leaves cuezcon-, dropping away the final "a" plus the absolutive. The dropping of an absolutive is not unusual in personal names, and the change from "m" to "n" at the end of a noun root is not unusual. For instance, cuemitl (agricultural row) goes to cuen- in cuentlan. Or quemitl (ritual bib) goes to -quen in xochiquen.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

domingo cuezcō

Gloss Normalization: 

Domingo Cuezcon

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
thatched roof
vertical, upright
woven
Keywords: 

corn, maize, maíz, almacenes, almacenamiento, granarios

Museum & Rare Book Comparisons: 
Museum/Rare Book Notes: 

This example of a cuezcomatl (maize storage structure) is found in the modern state of Morelos, Mexico. It was published to Wikimedia Commons, from Turismo Temoac. The name for this structure in contemporary Mexican Spanish is cuexcomate (unnecessarily, with the "x" replacing the "z").

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

cuezcoma(tl), corncrib, maize storage structure, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuezcomatl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 676r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=432&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: 

Cuezcon (MH515r)

cuezcomatl (Mdz10v)

cuezcomatl (Mdz16r)

cuezcomatl (Mdz16r)