Oyohual (MH666v)

Oyohual (MH666v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Oyohual (“Jingle Bells”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of three jingle bells attached to a curving band.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Many examples of glyphs for the name Oyohual show small numbers of bells attached to a curving band, perhaps something that would have been tied to a dancer’s ankle. One shows a larger fabric with many bells attached to it. A few other examples appear to emphasize olli (rubber), with large black circles. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Metals, Minerals, Mining
Music, Song, Dance
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
frontal view
Keywords: 

campanillas, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Campanilla

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=413&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: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
"u" for hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Oyohual (MH498v)

Oyohual (MH495v)

Oyohual (MH499r)

Oyohual (MH566v)

Oyohual (MH721r)

Oyohual (MH483r)

Oyohual (MH769v)