Xochicozcatl (MH873v)

Xochicozcatl (MH873v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochicozcatl (“Flower-Necklace”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a circular string of beads or necklace (cozcatl), with one larger object at the bottom (perhaps a flower, xochitl). The necklace has an obvious tie at the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Necklaces could be made from a range of materials, as seen in the examples below of a string of maize cobs, of small marine shells, of maize tassels, or turquoise beads, for example, The contextualizing image shows that this man named Xochicozcatl was also a neighborhood tribute collector (centecpanpixqui) who supervised 20 tribute payers.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

p^o. xochicoz
catl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Xochicozcatl

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:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

collares, cuentas, flores, redondo, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Collar de Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 873v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=819&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: