Yaotl (MH831r)

Yaotl (MH831r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yaotl (“Combatant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a war shield (chimalli), which, when standing alone as a personal name, stands for yaotl (combatant). This shield is somewhat different from others. It has two nearly half-circles opposite each other. Each one has a horizontal white band across it. Between the two halves is another piece that looks like a vertical white stripe. The result is a cross (+).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the array of designs for war shields, below. They vary considerably. For more on shields, especially fancy ones with feathers and turquoise mosaics, see Mexicolore.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luis yaotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Yaotl

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
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
War or Conflict
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
cross (+)
frontal view
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

yao(tl), enemy or combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 831r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=736&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: 

Yaotl (MH484v)

Yaotl (MH485r)

Yaotl (MH497r)

Yaotl (MH638v)

yaotl (Mdz51r)