Cuentlacuilol (MH664r)

Cuentlacuilol (MH664r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cuentlacuilol is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a rectangular parcel of land (cuemitl) that is divided in half along the diagonal. It has dots and squiggles on the upper left half, and it is black on the lower right half. Perhaps it is meant to look something like a piece of writing or a painting (tlacuilolli), or perhaps in this setting, tlacuilolli refers to intense cultivation of the land, or the new plants curling up from the seeds. The translation is elusive.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The verb icuiloa (to write or paint) seems to enter into a number of similar glyphs (see below). The full decipherment of these glyphs remains a challenge.

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:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stock Raising

Gender (male)

Land Parcels, Use, Issues

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

Keywords:

escribir, pintar, agricultura, parcelas, tierras, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cuem(itl), an agricultural furrow, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cuemitl
tlacuilol(li), a piece of writing, a painting, or a design, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlacuilolli

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 664r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=408&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: