Meximomoyac (MH871r)

Meximomoyac (MH871r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name or title Meximoomoyac (perhaps “Mexica Warrior-Priest Who Had Taken Captives”) is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He has perpendicular lines on his visible cheek in the way of face paint or tattooing. He also wears a feathered headdress. The feathers appear to be of different sizes and rather dispersed as compared to finer feathered headdress called the momoyactli that appears in the Codex Mendoza.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The face paint suggests a Mexica ethnicity (see below for examples). The feathered headdress is somewhat rare in these name name glyphs in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. But see some finer headdresses, below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

luys meximomoyac

Gloss Normalization:

Luis Meximomoyac

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Face Paint or Tattoos

Feathers

Gender (male)

Hair (human or animal)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

facing right

profile view

Keywords:

tocados, plumas, etnicidad, Mexicas, guerreros, sacerdotes, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Mexica, the people of Mexico Tenochtitlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mexica
momoyac(tli), a red-feather garment or feathered headdress device worn by warriors or priests who had taken captives, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/momoyactli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Mexica Guerrero-Sacerdote Que Tomó Cautivos

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 871r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=814&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).

Orthography:

"y" for i

Historical Contextualizing Image: