Mopipiloa (MH784v)

Mopipiloa (MH784v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mopipiloa ("Hanging") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a human head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It is hanging by a rope from a curving pole or denuded branch.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Crime, Punishment
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Rope, cord
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tied, bound, or bundled
curving, curvy, curved
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres, cabeza de hombre colgado, nombres de hombres

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

mopipiloa, is hanged or is hung, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mopipiloa

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=643&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: 
"ll" for l
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Mopipiloa (MH771r)