Xiuhcozcatl (MH498v)

Xiuhcozcatl (MH498v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex personal name Xiuhcozcatl (here, attested as a man's name) shows a necklace (cozcatl) with beads. The beads could be green or turquoise (xihuitl)].

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

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:

Color names

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

circle, circular or rounded

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

three-dimensionality

Keywords:

necklaces, collares, cuentas, beads, turquesas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Collar de Turquesa, o Collar Verde

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 498v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=76&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: