Necuametl (MH791r)

Necuametl (MH791r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Necuametl ("Small Spiny Agave," attested here as a man’s name) depicts what appears to be a vertical, three-piece agave plant with lots of spines or thorns.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This glyph features a cactus that looks something like a nopalli, but nothing like a metl. See some examples of agaves and cacti below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

ju^o neguametl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Necuametl

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Beverages

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Health, Medicine

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

oval (see also leaf shaped)

Keywords:

magueyes, agaves, juices, jugos, agua miel, nombres de hombres, plantas, cactos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

necuame(tl), a palm-like tree or a small spiny agave, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/necuametl
me(tl), maguey/agave plant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/metl
necua(tl), unfermented maguey juice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/necuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Palma Silvestre, o Jugo de Maguey

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 791r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=656&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:

"g" for c, q, or x

Historical Contextualizing Image: