Xoco (MH796v)

Xoco (MH796v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xoco (“XXX”) is attested here as a woman’s name. The glyph shows simply a ceramic pot (comitl), which serves as a phonetic indicator for the second syllable of the name Xoco. The pot has a small handle on each side, and it has a narrowing neck and a flared opening above that.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Xoco is a very common name for women, indicating birth order. We would have more of these names in this database if names women were more common in the manuscripts. Another glyph for Xoco has not only a ceramic pot but also perhaps a xocotl, a sour fruit, coming out of the top of the jug. See below. In both cases, these names are entirely phonetically indicated.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

martha xoco

Gloss Normalization: 

Marta 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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

hijas, daughters, más jóven, nacida últimamente women, nombres de mujeres

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

xoco, youngest child, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoco

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hija Más Jóven

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 796v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=667&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).

Orthography: 
"th" for t, d, or gd
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xoco (MH524v)