tochtli (MH485r)

tochtli (MH485r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black line drawing of the simplex noun for a rabbit (tochtli) doubles as a personal name, Tochtli. This rabbit is shown only as a head, in profile looking to the viewer's right. Its ears are long and tilted back. Its coat is textured. Its eye is open.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Tochtli was a popular name for Nahua men. It was a calendrical day sign and year sign, but personal names such as this one would have come from the divinatory day calendar (tonalpohualli). This rabbit may have its mouth slightly open and perhaps a tooth visible, but it is not clear. Unlike this example from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, most rabbits in the Codex Mendoza have protruding fangs.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

perido tochtli

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Pedro Tochtli

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
personal name
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals: Rabbits
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
facing right
profile view
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

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

tochtli, rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tochtli.

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 485r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=45&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: 

Tochtli (MH485v)