Acaiye (MH613v) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Acaiye (MH613v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acaiye ("Reed [with] Tobacco") is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

vertical, upright

Keywords:

tabaco, perfumes, incienso, olores, aromas, tubos para fumar, sticks, tobacco, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

aca(tl), reed or cane, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acatl
iye(tl), tobacco, perfume, or incense, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/iyetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Caña Aromática, o el Tubo Para Fumar

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 613v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=309st=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:

iyetl (Mdz12r)

iyetl (MH504r)

iyetl (MH613v)