Huetztoc (MH843r)

Huetztoc (MH843r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Huetztoc (“Fallen”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a man in profile, facing the viewer’s right. His nose and upper lip seem to have been painted a bit long, and those tips have been crossed out. He only has three toes showing on each foot; this might be intentional, to suggest that he is alterabled. The upper part of his body is hunched over. He is naked, and his penis is visible (something rare). Perhaps he has tripped, and he is falling (hence the verb, huetztoc, fallen or stretched out).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Two other examples of the verb huetztoc appear below. All of these examples involve a person who is nude, as though being nude was a vulnerable state that might coincide with falling.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

fraco vetztoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Huetztoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Keywords: 

desnudez, deznudo, cuerpo humano, peine, caído, nombres de hombres

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

huetztoc, stretched out or fallen, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huetztoc

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Caído

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 843r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=760&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).

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