Cemolotl (MH651v)

Cemolotl (MH651v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cemolotl ("Dried Ear of Maize") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows an upright or vertical corncob with inverted scalloped lines and, within each curved area, a dot. This differs from the cintli or centli in the cob's added dots, which may therefore intend to point to olotl (a dried ear of maize where the kernels have been removed).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro cemolotl

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Pedro Cemolotl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Corn, Maize
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
frontal view
leaf, marquise, pointed oval
segmented
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

números, maíz, leaf shape, nombres de hombres, men’s names

Museum/Rare Book/Realia Comparisons: 
Museum/Rare Book/Realia Notes: 

These two, black, dried, corn cobs without their kernels (olotl) came from the excavation of the Templo Mayor, where they are labeled “olotes.” They were sometimes used as counters. Photograph by Stephanie Wood, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 15 February 2023.

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

cemolo(tl), a dried ear of maize, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cemolotl
ce, one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
cem, one, or entire one, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ce
olo(tl), a counter, or an ear of corn without the kernels, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/olotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Uno, o Una Mazorca

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 651v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=385&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ce Acatl (TR14v)

Ce Coatl (MH519r)

Ce Imol (MH520r)

Ce Coatl (MH521v)

Tequicen (MH537v)

cintli (Mdz34r)

ocholli (FCbk9f49v)

Luis Vaca (TK217v)