Ozoma (BMapH41)

Ozoma (BMapH41)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ozoma (“Monkey) shows the head of a monkey (ozomatli) in profile, facing toward the left, the head of the man whose name this is. The monkey’s head has a large wide-open eye, a dot for a nostril, an open mouth, and thick black hair standing straight up on the top of its head.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Ozomatli is a day name in the 260-day religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

This glyph is not glossed; the transliteration of the glyph comes from Gordon Whittaker’s contribution to the study by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy (2012).

Source Manuscript: 
Beinecke Map (BMap)
Date of Manuscript: 

c. 1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City or the Valley of Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Misc.
Gender (male)
Mouth/Beak Open
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

monos, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

ozoma(tli), a monkey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ozomatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mono

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Beinecke Map/Codex Reese, section 8, no. 41 in the Whittaker study (published in the Miller/Mundy book, 2012), and see the original at: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3600017

Image Source, Rights: 

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ozoma (MH527r)

Ozoma (MH519v)

Ozoma (MH639v)

Ozoma (MH622v)

Ozoma (Verg8r)