Macuex (MH499v)

Macuex (MH499v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuex ("Bracelet" or "Beaded Wristband," attested here as a man's name) shows a frontal view of a hand and part of an arm in a vertical position with the fingers spread out. Around the wrist is a bracelet with three large beads (macuextli), possibly stone beads.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name could be translated "Bracelet," or "Bracelet with Precious Stone Beads." The contextualizing image shows that this man worked in construction.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

diego
macuex

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Macuex

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: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
frontal view
Keywords: 

bracelets, beads, cuentas, piedras, pulseras, nombres de hombres

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

macuex(tli), bracelet of precious stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pulsera de Cuentas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=78&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: 

Macuex (MH497r)

Macuex (MH495v)

Huitzilmacuex (MH522r)

Macuex (MH638r)

Macuex (MH669v)