Chipol (MH605v)

Chipol (MH605v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chipol (“Seashell,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a curving, spiraling shell.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This collection contains a considerable variety of shells of varying sizes and shapes, each with unique names. Water is also typically shown with streams ending in droplets and/or turbinate shells. Furthermore, shells from the sea were brought the the central highlands from a considerable distance. All of this underlines the importance of shells in Nahua culture.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

mateo chipol

Gloss Normalization: 

Mateo Chipol

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Marine, Maritime, Lacustrine
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Shells
Writing, Literacy
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

shells, caracoles, mar, océano

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

chipol(li), small white marine shell, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chipolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

una pequeña concha blanca

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 605v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=293st=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: 

Cillan (Mdz12r)

Coacuechtli (MH569v)

Eptli (MH560r)

Tecciz (MH523v)

cuechtli (Mdz44r)

ilacatztli (MH485r)

yecacozcayo (Mdz64r)