Chicon (MH730r)

Chicon (MH730r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name, Chicon (“Seven”), is attested here as a man’s name. It shows a ceramic pot (comitl) with a rounded body, a flared mouth, and three, visible, small handles. This pot provides the phonetic element -con that comes at the end of the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is likely an apocopation for a name that was once a full calendrical name from the 260-day divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli. Most likely, the name would have had a day name to accompany the number (such as 7-Ehecatl, or 7-cipactli, etc.), but the day name has dropped away. Other glyphs for Chicon appear below. These still have a notation of seven dots, but they lack the day name, which this one also lacks.

Added Analysis, 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: 
calendrics
day name
numbers
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as phonogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Ceramics, Pottery
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Numbers, Math
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

números, cerámica, calendarios, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

chicome, seven, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chicome
com(itl), ceramic pot, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/comitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Siete

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&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: 
"b" for p or f
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chicon (MH537r)

Chicon (MH484r)

Chicon (MH753r)