Xocotex (MH674r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xocotex (“Yeast”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of an upright ceramic container with a neck, two loops for attaching a handle, and a handle itself, which has a woven look. Small round objects (perhaps pieces of xocotextli, yeast) appear at the top of the ceramic container. The ceramic container may be a comitl, which provides a phonetic complement to the -co- in the middle of the name, possibly helping to identify the small items at the top of the jug.
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Many ceramic pots and jugs have small loops for attaching a tie or a handle, but rarely are such handles included in the glyphs. See some examples below.
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diego . xocotex
Diego Xocotex
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1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
levadura, cocinar, pan, nombres de hombres, earthenware, ceramic, ceramics, cerámicas, jug, pot, olla, jarra, jarro, vessel, vessels, vasija de cerámica, cántaro, cántaros, xoctli, xoctepi, huicolli, atlacuihuani, tecomitl, tecontontli, apilolli
xocotex(tli), yeast for bread, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xocotextli
co(mitl), a ceramic jug, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl
Levadura
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Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 674r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=428&st=image.
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