Picil (MH630v)

Picil (MH630v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Picil ("Gravel") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows large and small circles and dots, suggesting gravel with varying levels of granularity. One group has a medium circle surrounded evenly by seven smaller circles, almost forming a quincunx.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juan
piçil

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Picil

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)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
quincunx or quatrefoil
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

grava, guijarros, piedras, nombres de hombres, quincunces

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

picil, gravel, something small and ground down, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/piciltic
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Grava

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 630v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=343&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).

Orthography: 
"çi" for ci
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xalte (MH498v)

Xalteman (MH544r)

Xaxal (MH514r)

xalli (Mdz40r)