Ometoch (MH498r)

Ometoch (MH498r)
Simplex Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing combines a simplex glyph and notation for the personal name Ometoch ("Two-Rabbit," here, attested as a man’s name). It shows the head of a rabbit, in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Its ears are long and narrow and one is less visible, giving the animal some three-dimensionality. It has pronounced whiskers. It has some texturing on its coat. Its visible eye is open. Coming down from behind or just underneath the rabbit head are two vertical markers, seemingly serving as the notation for two (ome).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name Two-Rabbit was also held by a divine force or deity relating to the mildly alcoholic beverage, pulque. It is both a day name and a year name, so it has associations with the calendars called the tonalpohualli and the xiuhpohualli, and therefore with Nahua religion.

Notations for ones in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco are not always dots or circles. They can be stick-like markings or short, straight lines as shown here and in some examples below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
ometoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Ometoch

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
year name
day name
personal name
numbers
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
three-dimensionality
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

numbers, números, animales, conejos, ones, unos, Ome Tochtli, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

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

ome, two, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ome
toch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=75&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: 

Ce Coatl (MH519r)

Ce Imol (MH520r)

Ometoch (MH634v)

tonalpohualli (Mglb11v)

tonalpohualli (FCbk4f55r)