Yaotl (Verg11r)

Yaotl (Verg11r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Yaotl ("The Combatant") shows a round war shield with a vertical macuahuitl behind it. The shield has a very simplified cuexyo design; it almost looks like a contemporary "happy face."

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

A scene from the Aztec imperial expansion, showing a defeat (tepehualiztli), has two men holding shields (chimalli) and obsidian blade-studded wooden clubs (macuahuitl).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

franco . yaotl

Gloss Normalization: 

Francisco Yaotl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Vergara, Codex (Verg)
Date of Manuscript: 

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

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: 
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
pointed (see also spiky)
vertical, upright
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
front to back
Keywords: 

escudos, rodelas, macanas, combatientes, guerra, conflictos

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

yao(tl), combatant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/yaotl
macuahui(tl), obsidian-studded blade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/macuahuitl
chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Combatiente

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Codex Vergara, folio 11r, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f29.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

The non-commercial reuse of images from the Bibliothèque nationale de France is free as long as the user is in compliance with the legislation in force and provides the citation: “Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France” or “Source gallica.bnf.fr / BnF.” We would also appreciate a citation to the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chimal (MH490r)

cuexyo (Mdz49r)

tepehualiztli (TR29r)