Zochtli (MH619r)

Zochtli (MH619r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph of the personal name, Zochtli (an unusual rendition of rabbit), shows an animal in profile, facing left, and looking upward. The animal is like a silhouette, entirely black with no distinguishing details.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

It is unclear if this is a calendrical name where the number has been dropped, as became increasingly common over time. Or, perhaps the zochtli was not a day or year sign the way tochtli was.

Added Analysis, 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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing left
facing upward
profile view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Keywords: 

rabbits, conejos, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

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

zoch(tli), rabbit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/zochtli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

El Conejo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320st=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: 

tochtli (Mdz48r)

Tochtli (Verg7r)

Citli (MH614r)

tochtli (Mdz48r)