Ecaten (MH642r)

Ecaten (MH642r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or status, Ecaten ("Air Lip"), attested here as a man's name, shows an anthropomorphic head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The head has a thick, black, vertical line on its cheek, recalling the face paint or tattoo associated with images of Ehecatl, the divine force of the wind. The buccal mask (through which Ehecatl is perceived to blow wind) takes the place of the lips (tentli) on the face.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Typical of representations of Ehecatl, this name also provice only Eca-, without the reduplication.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ecatē

Gloss Normalization: 

Ecaten

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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
striped
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

eca(tl), air, breath, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecatl
eheca(tl), wind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ehecatl
ten(tli), lip, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 642r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=366st=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: 

Ecatl (MH484r)

tentli (MH498r)