Otlicahuetztoc (MH658r)

Otlicahuetztoc (MH658r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Otlicahuetztoc ("Fallen by the Road") is attested here as a man’s name. It is a man in a 3/4 view, apparently sitting on the ground or on his back next to a road, having fallen down. The fallen body suggests the verb huetzi, and the road (otli) is shown as a vertical rectangle with two alternating foot prints (suggesting movement).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The -toc suffix (went to do), suggests purposive action. The three-quarter view suggests European artistic influence. Some glyphs showing naked bodies--without even a loincloth--seem to show European influence, too. Many times they appear to be in vulnerable circumstances, such as this one, or Malteotl (MH832r), Tecuanitzin (MH532r), Cicuil (MH536r), Tlacatoncatl (MH641v), Motzetzelo (MH506v), and Tenapalo (MH551r).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

anto^o otlicauetztoc

Gloss Normalization:

Antonio Otlicahuetztoc

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Footprint(s), human

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Nudity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

3/4 view

facing upward

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

huellas, cuerpo, calles, caminos, caerse, caído, verbos, pretérito, torpe, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

o(tli), road, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otli
ica, with or through, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ica
huetzi, to fall down, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/huetzi
-toc, went to do, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/toc

Additional Scholars' Interpretations:

James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 121) saw this personal name in the censuses of Culhuacan, c. 1580, and translated it as "He Lies Fallen On the Road."

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Caído al Lado del Camino

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 658r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=396.

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: