Oceloqui (MH497v)

Oceloqui (MH497v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Oceloqui is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a jaguar hide from a bird's eye view, dark on the right and ilght on the left, and with large spots. The tail is included, but not the skin from the head.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This name just might be an abbreviation for Oceloquichtli, "Jaguar Warrior."

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
ocelog~

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Oceloqui (or perhaps Oceloquich?)

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Leather, hides
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
shading and parallel line hatching
spotted or mottled
Keywords: 

animales, jaguares, jaguars, nombres de hombres

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

ocelo(tl), jaguar, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocelotl
oceloquich(tli), jaguar warrior, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oceloquichtli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 497v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=74&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
Historical Contextualizing Image: