Pehual (MH730r)

Pehual (MH730r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Pehual (perhaps “Conquered”), shows a frontal view of a hand possibly holding a black, vertical weapon. A white stick runs up through the middle of a black substance.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The most common weapons in this digital collection are projectiles (such as arrows, spears, etc.) or the macuahuitl (macana in Spanish), which is a handheld club with embedded obsidian blades. The weapon featured in this glyph, here, seems closer to the weapons featured in the glyphs for Yaoquiz and Yaoquizqui (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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

armas, negro, conquistar, conquista, nombres de hombres

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

pehual(li), something conquered or vanquished, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pehualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Conquistado

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538&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
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Yaoquiz (MH507r)

Yaoquizqui (MH746r)

macuahuitl (TR36v)

mitl (Mdz40r)

Tlaxich (MH506v)