Ixohuica (MH711v)

Ixohuica (MH711v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Ixohuica (perhaps, “Eye in Difficulty”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a European style human eye (ixtli) in a frontal view. Something below the eye seems to present difficulty (ohuica), perhaps ill health or danger. But a reading on this lower element is elusive.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Another compound name glyph, shown below in two examples, involves a human eye. One has a European-style eye and one has the older, Indigenous, starry eye.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
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): 
downward
Other Cultural Influences: 
Spanish/European
Keywords: 

ojos, peligro, difficultades, nombres de hombres

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

ix(tli), eye or face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
ohuica, with difficulty, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ohuica

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Ojo en Dificultades

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 711v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=501&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: 

Atlix (MH733r)

Atlix (MH521v)