Nepolol (MH810v)

Nepolol (MH810v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nepolol (perhaps “Self Destruction”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of an open left hand touching (smearing? rubbing?) a scalloped-edge substance. Might this be mud (pololli) for making adobe bricks, used here as a phonetic indicator for nepololiztli, the loss of self or self-destruction. This name requires further research.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The cloud of substance behind the hand does look something like the glyph for zoquitl in the Codex Mendoza (below).

Added Analysis, 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
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
indefinite reflexive "ne"
verb
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Emotions
Gender (male)
Health, Medicine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Keywords: 

perecer, desaparezca, personas, manos, lodo, nombres de hombres

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

ma(itl), hand or arm, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/maitl
nepololiz(tli), the loss of self or self-destruction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/nepololiztli
pololli, mud for making adobe bricks, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pololli
pololtoca, to wish for someone to perish and disappear, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pololtoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Perder a Sí Mismo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 810v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=695&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: 

zoquitl (Mdz33r)

maitl (Mdz12r)

Inepolol (MH667v)