miqui (Verg6r)

miqui (Verg6r)
Element from a Compound

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the element miqui (to die) has been taken from the compound personal name glyph, Temic (see below). It shows a skull looking slightly toward the viewer's left. Some shading appears on the right side of the skull, adding three-dimensionality. This may reflect European artistic influence.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Syntax: 
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Death, decay, decomposition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

miqui, to die, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miqui

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 6r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f19.item

Image Source, Rights: 

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See Also: 

Temic (Verg6r)