Poctli (MH499v)

Poctli (MH499v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Poctli (here, attested as a man’s name) shows three curls of smoke (poctli). They are all vertical, with the curls facing toward the viewer's left. They have no coloring.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

These scrolls or volutes are much like speech scrolls. Their movement upwards, however, is more like smoke.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

francisco
poctli

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Poctli

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)
visible movement
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Weather, Climate
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

smoke, humo

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

poc(tli), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poctli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Humo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 499v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=78&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 (MH833v)