Ecoc (MH725r)

Ecoc (MH725r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ecoc (“He Arrived”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a bare human leg in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. The implication of the leg is movement, arrival, drawing from a past tense of the verb eco.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A single human leg can suggest jump and run away, or stand, or other activities. See some examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
verb
preterit tense
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

piernas, llegar, nombres de hombres

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

eco, to arrive, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/eco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Él Llegó

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=528&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).

Orthography: 
intrusive "h" or "hu"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Tlacza (MH594v)

quetza (Mdz12r)

choloa (MH633v)

Chololtecatl (MH647v)

Xonecuil (MH508r)

Ecoc (MH673r)