Poctli (MH833v)
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 four curls of smoke (poctli) going off toward the viewer's right.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:
juā poctli
Gloss Normalization:
Juan Poctli
Gloss Analysis, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Keywords:
smoke, humo, volutas, nombres de hombres
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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 833r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=741&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).
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