Mezotl (MH564v)

Mezotl (MH564v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mezotl (“Dried Maguey,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a maguey (metl) or agave branch, point down, with dashed lines down the middle and spines all along the edges.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is difficult to say if the dashed lines down the middle of the maguey branch suggest that it is dried. If not, then the visuals for "dred" are not apparent.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anloo meçotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Alonso Mezotl

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: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
pointed (see also spiky)
spiky
spiny
Keywords: 

magueyes, dry, dried, seco, pencas

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

mezo(tl), dried maguey (agave), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mezotl
me(tl), maguey, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
zoltic, old, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zoltic

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Penca Seca de Maguey

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 564v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=208&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: 

Mexi (MH500v)

Metlacatl (MH491r)

Necuametl (MH528r)