Mical (MH524r)

Mical (MH524r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Mical ("He Skirmished") shows a frontal view of four or five arrows (mitl) in a housing (calli). The arrows are vertical and decorated with feathers. Their shafts are yellow, suggesting that they are made from reeds (acatl). The housing or case for the arrows covers the lower half of the arrows. It is rounded at the bottom. It appears to be made from animal hide, perhaps a jaguar skin, as it has spots on it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

To skirmish is micali, and a warrior who was constantly in battle was known as a micalini. We have yet to find micalli translated as quiver, but it is a possibility. But micomitl is attested as quiver. For the moment, we are declaring this fully phonographic, given that the element might only semantically point to the verb to skirmish.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood, with assistance from Gordon Whittaker

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

domigo mical

Gloss Normalization: 

Domingo Mical

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Leather, hides
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
gray
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
spotted or mottled
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

carcajes, aljabas, quivers, arrow containers

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

mi(tl), arrows or darts, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mitl
cal(li), house, building, container, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
micali, to skirmish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/micali
micomi(tl), quiver, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/micomitl
micalini, a warrior, constantly in battle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/micalini

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flecha-Carcaj

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 524r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=127&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: 

mitl (Mdz40r)

acatl (Mdz2v)