Elcoz (MH725r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Elcoz (perhaps “Yellow-Chested”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human being in profile, facing toward the viewer’s left. The person is unclothed and crouching. The legs are small and bent. The right arm is bent at the elbow, with the forearm extending forward.
Stephanie Wood
Apparently, the reference to organs in the abdomen suggest something about the chest. A yellow chest or breast recalls a bird, but this is a human, which is intriguing. Perhaps the person would wear yellow feathers on his chest.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
amarillo, pecho, nombres de hombres
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elcoztic, yellow-chested, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/elcoztic
el(li), liver and gall bladder, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/elli
coztic, yellow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coztic
Con el Pecho Amarillo
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 725r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=528&st=image
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/ElcozMH725rContext.png)