Poctli (MH838v)

Poctli (MH838v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Poctli (“Smoke”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a vertical, swirling, dark gray stream of smoke.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The treatment of this smoke varies from most others, which involve the use of volutes, as does the verb popoca. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio. poctli

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Poctli

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
gray
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

humo, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Humo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 838v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=751&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 (Mdz17v)

poctli (Mdz46r)

Poctli (MH499v)

Poctli (MH833v)

poctli (TR42v)

Poctlehual (MH774r)

Chimalpopoca (TR30v)