Amatec (MH663r)

Amatec (MH663r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Amatec (perhaps “Paper Cutter”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows simply a white rectangle, intending the word for paper, amatl. The cutting sense of the name (from tequi) is not shown visually, unless the fact that the paper has been cut into a neat rectangle or square is meant to convey this.

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Labor Issues
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Paper
Technology (all types), plus Tools
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

cortar, papel, trabajo, nombres de hombres

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

ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
tequi, to cut, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tequi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Él Que Corta Papel

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 663r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=406&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

amatl (MH795r)

Amaxoch (MH795v)

Tolama (MH711r)