Inepolol (MH667v)

Inepolol (MH667v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Inepolol (perhaps “His Self-Destruction”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a nenetl (doll or deity sculpture) with squared-off protrusions on its head and breasts on its chest. This nenetl figure provides the phonetic -ne- syllable for the name. This figure is smeared with black ink, resembling mud (pololli), a phonetic indicator relating to destruction. The possessive pronoun i- is not shown visually.

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)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Art, Design, Crafts, etc.
Gender (female)
Gender (male)
Names (men's, but w/ female dimension)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Toys
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

muñeca, esculturas, deidades, lodo, destrucción, nombres de hombres

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

nene(tl), doll, deity sculpture, or woman’s genitals, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nenetl
polol(li), mud, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pololli
nepololiz(tli), one’s self-destruction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nepololiztli
I- (third person singular possessive pronoun), his or her, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Destrucción de Uno Mismo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 667v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=415&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: 

Nepolol (MH810v)