Cuauhxilotl (Mdz486v)

Cuauhxilotl (Mdz486v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This compound personal name for Cuauhxilotl is fully phonographic. The eagle (cuauhtli) and the tender corn cob (xilotl) are there to elicit the name of a tropical tree with edible fruit (cuauhxilotl). The eagle's head is shown in profile. Its beak is open. The corn cob is above the eagle head. Its kernels are visible, even as it has a partial husk on the left side. A small amount of corn silk comes off the top of the ear.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luys guauhxilotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Cuauhxilotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Writing Features: 
compound fully phonographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Corn, Maize
Feathers
Food, Eating, Cooking
Mouth/Beak Open
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Xitlali Torres

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

cuauhxilo(tl), a tropical tree with edible fruit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhxilotl
cuauhtli, eagle, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtli
xilotl, tender green ear of corn, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xilotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Águila-Elote

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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: