Xonecuil (MH508r)

Xonecuil (MH508r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xonecuil ("Twisted Leg") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph depicts a somewhat twisted human leg (xonecuilli) in profile. The leg includes some three-dimensional shading.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This glyph might be phonographic if a different definion of xonecuilli is meant, such as the one that has something to do with a zigzag shaped tortilla or a staff used in religious offerings.

Added Analysis, 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
phonetic possibilities
Syntax: 
cuil (tracking)
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Body postures
Disabilities
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
vertical, upright
twisted or entwined
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

legs, piernas, twisted, retorcido, nombres de hombres

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

xonecuil(li), twisted foot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xonecuilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Pierna Retorcida

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 508r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=95&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: 

xonecuilli (Mdz16v)

Xonecuil (MH720v)