Coxcox (MH817r)

Coxcox (MH817r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Coxcox (perhaps “Pheasant”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of a man in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. He seems to be bald, but he wears a headband with a single feather in it (perhaps a pheasant feather).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Further decipherment work is needed for this glyph. Coxcox might also be a reference to a certain ethnicity, given the distinctive look of this man, but that remains to be verified. See other Coxcox examples below, which seem more reliably to point to a pheasant.

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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Feathers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
profile view
facing right
Keywords: 

plumas, pájaros, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

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

coxcox, a nocturnal bird, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coxcox
coxcox(tli), a type of pheasant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/coxcoxtli-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Faisán

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 817r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=708&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: 
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Coxcox (MH572r)

Coxcox (MH834r)

Coxcox (Verg7v)