Huitztoxiuh (MH633v)

Huitztoxiuh (MH633v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Huitzoxiuh (perhaps "Thorn-Our Flower") is attested here as woman's name. The elements are a two-toned thorn pointing downward at an angle. The bottom half is black, the top half white. The flower appears to be pierced by the thorn at about its middle. The flower is upright, with three visible petals, a base, a stem, and one leaf going off to the left.

Description, 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)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Religion (Indigenous)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

frontal view

pointed (see also spiky)

tripartite

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

espinas, posesivo, flores

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

huitz(tli), thorn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huitztli
to-, first person plural possessive, our, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/node/175783
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Espina-Nuestra Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 633v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=349st=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: