molli (MH818r)

molli (MH818r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the noun molli (“sauce”) shows a small molcaxitl (or molcajete, the Nahuatl loanword in Spanish), a stone bowl with legs that was used with a pestle for grinding sauces. Some type of food is visible above the top of the sauce bowl. The bowl has shading on the left side, which gives it a three-dimensionality.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This noun taken from the personal name glyph for Diego Tequimol.

Added 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
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
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): 

mol(li), sauce, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/molli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

la salsa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 818r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=710&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: 
"g" for c, q, or x