Pocatl (MH526r)

Pocatl (MH526r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pocatl (“Smoke,” attested here as a man’s name) shows curling, upright lines meant to resemble smoke (pocatl).

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro.pocatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Pocatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

humo, humear, humeando, smoking, smoke

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

poca(tl), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pocatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

humo

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 526r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=131&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

poctli (Mdz46r)

poctli (Mdz17v)

Huitzilpopoca (MH507r)