Ecoztli (MH678v)

Ecoztli (MH678v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ecoztli (perhaps “Yellow Bean”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a round bean with a small circle in the middle.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Other examples of beans appear below. Note how the bean glyph could provide the phonetic value of “e” to a number of glyphs.

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
oval (see also leaf shaped)
Keywords: 

frijoles, comida, nombres de hombres

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

ecoz(tli), yellow, red, or brown beans, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ecoztli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Frijol Amarillo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 678v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=437&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: 

Ceheic (MH632v)

Etlan (Mdz44r)

Tetloc (MH498r)

Neocoltzin (MH643r)

Miquetlan (Mdz52r)