Oxihuacan (MH730r)

Oxihuacan (MH730r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Oxihuacan ("Where They Have Turpentine Unguent") is attested here as a man's name. It shows a frontal view of two, symmetrical, dark gray or black ceramic pots with a white arching handle that connects them. These pots must have been used as containers for oxitl, a black turpentine unguent. A frontal view of a building surrounding the pots provides a semantic visual for the -can locative (“where”), explaining that this is a place. The -hua of possession is not shown visually.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
place name
Syntax: 
locative (not visual, but represented semantically)
noun(s)
possessive pronoun
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Ceramics, Pottery
Names (places)
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
outward (from inside out)
Keywords: 

ungüento de trementina, cerámica, nombres de lugares

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

oxi(tl), turpentine unguent, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/oxitl
-hua (possession), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua
-can (locative suffix), where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Donde Tienen Ungüento de Trementina

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538.

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: 

Oxihuacan (MH625v)