Ixcahual (MH666v)

Ixcahual (MH666v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixcahual (perhaps “Something Lost”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a human eye (ixtli) in the style of the starry eye of the earliest glyphs. Also, below the eye and to the left, speech scrolls emerge from the mouth of the tribute payer. The reading of these scrolls remains to be determined.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

See the starry eye from the Codex Mendoza, below, along with some more European style eyes.

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)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
circle(s) (small, often concentric)
circle, circular or rounded
diagonal or angled
frontal view
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Keywords: 

ojos, volutas, hablar, nombres de hombres

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

ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
cahual(li), someone left behind, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cahualli
ixcahualtia, to lose something from negligence, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixcahualtia

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Algo Perdido

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=413&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: 

ixtli (Mdz21v)

ixtli (MH541v)

ixtli (MH521v)

Cihuacahual (MH741v)

cahualli (MH608r)

Cahuallan (Mdz13v)