Ometoch (MH634v)

Ometoch (MH634v)
Compound Glyph
Notation

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph plus notation for the personal name Ometoch ("Two-Rabbit" or "2-Rabbit") shows a the head of a rabbit (tochtli) in profile, looking toward the viewer's right. Its ears stand up, and its eye is open. Two upright lines provide the notation for two (ome). They connect to the back of the head of the rabbit.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Two-Rabbit is a calendrical name taken from the 260-day divinatory calendar called the tonalpohualli. The use of such names was in flux in the colonial context, but this one is traditional. Ometochtli has associations with divine forces linked to octli (pulque, a mildly alcoholic beverage).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ometoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Ometoch

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
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: 
facing right
linear or multiple straight lines
frontal view
profile view
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

numbers, números, animales, conejos, ones, unos, Ome Tochtli, bebidas, alcohol, fuerzas divinas, deidades, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=351.

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: 

Ometoch (MH498r)

Ometoch (MH642v)

Ometoch (MH634v)

Ometochcuacuil (MH618v)