Mopipiloa (MH784v)

Mopipiloa (MH784v)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Mopipiloa ("Hanging") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a human head in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. It is hanging by a rope from a curving pole or denuded branch.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Descripción del glifo o de la imagen iconográfica:

Este dibujo de trazos negros del glifo simple para el nombre propio Mopipiloa (“Colgado”) se registra en este caso como el nombre de un hombre y nos muestra una cabeza humana de perfil que mira hacia la derecha del espectador, colgada de un poste recurvo o una rama desnuda mediante una cuerda.

Traducción de la descripción, crédito:

Ricardo A. Iriarte Valdés

Gloss or Text 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:

Anatomy, human body parts

Crime, Punishment

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Rope, cord, string

Wood, wooden things

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

facing right

profile view

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, cabeza de hombre colgado, nombres de hombres, men's names

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

mopipiloa, is hanged or is hung, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mopipiloa

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=643&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:

"ll" for l

"v" for u, uh, or hu

Historical Contextualizing Image: