Yaopoc (MH644r)

Yaopoc (MH644r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yaopoc ("War Smoke," attested here as a man's name), shows a person with long, wavy hair. A hand comes up to the face, perhaps to cover it. How these visuals relate to war smoke remains to be deciphered.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juo yaupoc

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Yaopoc

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
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
profile view
Keywords: 

guerra, humo, cabeza, mano, nombres de hombres

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

yao(tl), enemy or combatant, or, when in a compound starting with yao-, this means war, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
poc(tli), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poctli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Humo de Guerra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&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: 

poctli (Mdz46r)

poctli (Mdz17v)

Poctli (MH499v)

poctli (TR42v)