Macuex (MH495v)

Macuex (MH495v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Macuex ("Bracelet" or "Beaded Wristband," attested here as a man's name) shows an upright (right) hand with a bracelet (macuextli) at the wrist. The bracelet consists of four round beads.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro
macuex

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Macuex

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
profile view
facing left
Keywords: 

bracelets, pulseras, joyas, jewels, beads, cuentas, nombres de hombres

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

macuex(tli), a bracelet with precious stones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuextli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Pulsera de Cuentas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=70&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: 

Macuex (MH497r)

Macuex (MH499v)

Macuex (MH487v)

Macuex (MH638r)

Macuex (MH669v)