Cuitlixco (MH543v)

Cuitlixco (MH543v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This simplex glyph for the place name Cuitlixco ("In Front of the Excrement"?) shows a human buttocks (a semantic element) expelling six scrolls or volutes that suggest excrement (cuitlatl). The element -ix- (perhaps from ixtli, eye?) and the locative suffix (-co) are not presented visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

cuitlizco

Gloss Normalization:

Cuitlixco

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:

place name

semantic indicator

Syntax:

locative (not visual)

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Names (places)

Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

volute(s)

Keywords:

excremento, trasero

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Cuitlixco, a place in Tlaxcala
cuitla(tl), excrement or the back, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuitlatl
ixco, in front of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixco

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 543v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=166&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: