Ocotochtli (TK205v)

Ocotochtli (TK205v)
Compound Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound Nahuatl hieroglyph represents the personal name Ocotochtli (perhaps “Fatwood-Rabbit”). The name is attested here as pertaining to a man. The name was held by an ancestral Chichimec figure (shown in the contextualizing image). The glyph is partially obscured by some tears on the edge of the page, but the compound appears to have two elements. At the bottom is a rabbit (tochtli) head shown in profile and facing left. Above that is the top of what may be a fatwood pine tree (ocotl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The contextualizing image shows the man in profile, facing left, carrying a bow and two barbed arrows in his left hand and another arrow in his right hand. He wears sandals tied on at the ankle. His animal hide cloak is tied over his right shoulder, but both arms are uncovered. He also wears a headdress with a blue ring of flowers around his forehead and a two-tone blue and orange circular device on top of his head.The latter has four dangling attachments, each one with a feather at the end. On his back he carries a large quiver with at least six additional arrows that have fletching in a variety of colors.

Side Note: The folio numbers are not always clear in the copy published online by the British Museum. Marc Thouvenot gives this page the number K03_B in his TLACHIA digital collection, https://tlachia.iib.unam.mx/tepetlaoztoc/K03_B.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

.hoco tochtli.

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Ocotochtli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Tepetlaoztoc, Codex (aka Kingsborough) (TK)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1556

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tepetlaoztoc, East of Lake Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

flecha, flechas, arco, arcos, plumas, armas, piel, pieles, tocado, tocados, penacho, penachos, ancestros, chichimecas, conejo, conejos, ocote, árbol, árboles, pino, pinos, nombres de hombres, men’s names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

oco(tl), fatwood, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ocotl
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Ocote-Conejo

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Kingsborough, also known as the Códice de Tepetlaoztoc, and the Memorial de los indios de Tepetlaoztoc, is not on display. It was transferred from the British Library and is now held by the British Museum. It is shared on line at: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/E_Am2006-Drg-13964

Image Source, Rights:

©The Trustees of the British Museum. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. Please also cite the <em>Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphsem>, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-present) and this URL.

Orthography:

intrusive "h" or "hu"

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: