Ocelotl (BMapG33)

Ocelotl (BMapG33)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ocelotl (“Jaguar”) shows the head of the animal in profile, facing left, toward the man whose name this was. The ocelotl head has spots and small ears. Its mouth is open, with teeth and tongue visible.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ocelotl was a name from the 260-day religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

This glyph is not glossed; the transliteration of the glyph comes from Gordon Whittaker’s contribution to the study by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy (2012).

Source Manuscript: 
Beinecke Map (BMap)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City or the Valley of Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Misc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Tongue Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
spotted or mottled
Keywords: 

jaguares, animales feroces, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Jaguar

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Beinecke Map/Codex Reese, section 8, no. 433 in the Whittaker study (published in the Miller/Mundy book, 2012), and see the original at: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3600017

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

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