Xoco (MH524v)

Xoco (MH524v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xoco (here, attested as a woman's name) shows a frontal view of a ceramic pot (comitl) and what may be a fruit (xocotl]. The object that may be a fruit has some shading on the right side (from the viewer's perspective), giving it some three-dimensionality. The fruit sits on top of the ceramic pot. Both are vertical. The pot appears to have three handles, at least. There may be a fourth on the back that is not visible.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The pot seems to be a phonetic complement ("co") for the fruit ("xoco"). The pot could also have a semantic value if it causes people to think of the various beverages that are made from fruit. See the dictionary links that point to some of these beverages. The fruit may be rather sour, possibly feeding into the adjective for sour, xococ (also in the dictionary list). Two place name glyphs from the Codex Mendoza (below) show how the fruit appear on the tree. They are very round, whereas the fruit in this image looks more like a pear shape (with a stem). Xoco is a very common name for women, indicating birth order. This glyph is really entirely a phonetic prompt that would lead the reader to come up with the birth order name, youngest child.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

ana xoco

Gloss Normalization: 

Ana Xoco

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Beverages
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
pointed (see also spiky)
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
vertical, upright
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

fruits, frutas, cerámica, ceramics, jarros, tazones, última hija, orden de nacimiento

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

Xoco, a name, youngest child, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoco
xoco(tl), a hog plum or some other fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocotl
xoco octli, a wine made from plums, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoco-octli
xocoatl, a drink made from maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocoatl
xococ, something sour, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xococ

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Última Hija Menor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 524v, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=128&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: 

Axocopan (Mdz8r)

Xocoyocan (Mdz55r)

comitl (TR26v)

comitl (MH484r)