Xoxol (MH674v)

Xoxol (MH674v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xoxol (perhaps “Fool”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an indeterminate shape.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Help would be appreciated in deciphering both the visuals and the gloss for this glyph. We have included some dictionary terms that contain “xoxol,” hoping that they may be helpful.

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

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
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
frontal view
Keywords: 

tonto, débil, nombres de hombres

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

xoxolo(tl), a weak or stupid person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xoxolotl
texoxoloti, to fool people, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/texoxoloti
tlaxoxoleuh(tli), a sore or a wound, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlaxoxoleuhtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Tonto

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 674v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=429&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: 

Tecuixoxol (MH651r)