Yacatl (MH564r)

Yacatl (MH564r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yacatl (“Nose,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a profile view of an abbreviated face--emphasizing the nose--facing toward the viewer's right. The mouth and chin are missing, and the person's eye is closed. The emphasis is on the nose (yacatl).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In some discourse, the nose is associated with truth telling. See our Online Nahuatl Dictionary entry for yacatl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peo yacatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Yacatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
pointed (see also spiky)
Keywords: 

noses, narices, naríz

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

yaca(tl), nose, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yacatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Nariz

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 564r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=207&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: 

yacatl (Mdz44r)

yacatl (Mdz8r)

yacatl (Mdz10v)

yacatl (Mdz10v)