Omaca (MH763r)

Omaca (MH763r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the notation and personal name Omaca (which could also be spelled Ome Acatl, Two Reed) is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows two vertical, parallel reeds (acatl), and it has no additional notation sign for the number two. The reeds are segmented, something like bamboo and very much like what is called carrizo in Mexican Spanish.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While Ome Acatl could be the name for a year in the xiuhpohualli (year-count calendar), as this apocopated personal name, Omacatl probably drew from the day-count calendar, the tonalpohualli, which was religious, divinatory, and therefore the source for many children's names.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
year name
personal name
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
visual plural (multiples of objects)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
segmented
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

calendarios, calendario, fecha, fechas, números, cañas, nombres de días, nombres de hombres, men's names, day names

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

ome, two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ome
aca(tl), reed, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Dos Caña, o 2-Caña

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 763r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=604&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: 

Omacatl (MH658r)

Ome Acatl (CQ)