Ozoma (MH668r)

Ozoma (MH668r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Ozoma (“monkey”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a monkey in profile view, facing toward the viewer’s right. The monkey has spiky hair, an earring, and a pointed, curving ornament coming out from his chin. His eye is round and wide-open, too.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a day name in the 260-day religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli. In earlier times, this day name would have had a companion number from 1 to 13. But by the time of this manuscript, the use of the numbers was dropping away, perhaps because the clergy were trying to discourage the use of the pre-contact calendar.

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: 
calendrics
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

monos, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

ozoma, a calendrical marker that references the monkey day sign, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ozoma
ozoma(tli), a monkey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ozomatli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Mono

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 668r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=416&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: 
"ç" for z or tz
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ozoma (MH519v)

Ozoma (MH639v)

ozomatli (TR8r)

Ozoma (MH527r)

Ozoma (MH486r)