Pocatl (MH518r)

Pocatl (MH518r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Pocatl (a somewhat rare noun for smoke) shows a series of curling black lines going up and out, in the direction of the viewer's right.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

While many smoke curls rise upward, these are almost horizontal, emerging something like speech scrolls.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco pocatl

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Pocatl

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: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
facing right
horizontal
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

smoke, humo, volutas, swirls

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

poca(tl), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pocatl
poc(tli), smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/poctli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Humo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 518r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=115&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)

popoca (Mdz4v)

nahuatl (Mdz71r)

nahuatl (Mdz17v)