Oyohual (MH634r)

Oyohual (MH634r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of a compound glyph for the personal name Oyohual ("Jingle Bell," attested here as a man's name) shows the head of what may be a dog with a black rubber ball (olli) in its mouth. This seems to serve as a phonetic indicator for the start of the name O-. Another possibility is that the black circle refers to the night (yohualli, which is a year homophone for oyohualli). If both of these elements, the ball and the night are coming into play, then this compound is fully phonographic, as there is nothing here that looks like a leg bell (oyohualli) that dancers wore.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The dog's head is shown in a 3/4 view, which suggests European influence. This is also the only glyph in this collection so far (March 2024) where a dog has a ball in its mouth. The dog's full role in the glyph is unclear.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

oyoval

Gloss Normalization: 

Oyohual

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
homophony, rebus
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Mouth/Beak Open
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Rubber
Sensory Perception
Technology (all types), plus Tools
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
profile view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

campanillas, campanas, pinjantes, metales, suenan, nombres de hombres

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

oyohual(li), leg bell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oyohualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Campanilla o Cascabel

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 634r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=350&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).

Orthography: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Oyohual (MH499r)

Oyohual (MH493v)

Oyohual (MH495v)

Oyohual (MH498v)

Oyohual (MH483r)

Oyohual (MH769v)

Yohual (MH503r)

Yohualahuech (MH624v)