Miccacalcatl (MH871r)

Miccacalcatl (MH871r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Miccacalcatl (perhaps “Person from Miccacalco”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a house (calli) and the upper half of a horizontal body inside the broad entryway. Presumably the person is deceased, as the ethnic identity of the person with this name glyph is someone from Miccacalco, which means “At the House of the Dead.” A place with this name is mentioned in the Codex Chimalpopoca (1998, 37, and 2011, 13) as being in Tepotzotlan and the site of a lightning strike that killed the men and women of the nobility (tlatoque and cihuapipiltin).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It would seem that there must be another Miccacalco, if this tribute payer was from a place of that name, given that the deadly lightning strike happened in the year 931 C.E. Perhaps there was a Miccacalco associated with the celebration of the festival month of Miccailhuitl in the xiuhpohualli, year-count calendar (See below.)

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

andres miccacalcatl

Gloss Normalization:

Andrés Micacalcatl

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:

calendrics

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Death, decay, decomposition

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Time, Calendar, Frequency

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Keywords:

muerte, etnicidades, casas, arquitectura, pueblos, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(persona de Miccacalco)

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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: