Huelic (MH564v)

Huelic (MH564v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huelic (“Delicious,” attested here as a man’s name) shows the tribute payer raising his hand to his mouth, and in his hand is perhaps a fruit or apparently something delicious (huelic) to eat. There are no phonetic indicators to help with this reading.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dieo velic

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Huelic

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Emotions
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Sensory Perception
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

tasty, delicioso, gustoso, pleasing, food, comida

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

huelic, delicious, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huelic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Gustoso, o Delicioso

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 564v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=208&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: 

Atl Huelic (Mdz25r)