Oten (MH673r)

Oten (MH673r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Oten (“Edge of the Road”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows two ascending and alternating footprints (showing movement). A vertical line to the right of the footprints and parallel with them suggests an edge (tentli) to a road (otli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Glyphs for roads will show simple footprints in a row or the same encased in parallel lines. Roads can have a literal meaning, but some tlacuilos also used them phonetically for the “o” sound.

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: 
Footprint(s), human
Gender (male)
Movement
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Transportation, Travel, Roads
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
Keywords: 

caminos, bordes, nombres de hombres

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

o(tli), road, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/otli
ten(tli), edge or border, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tentli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Borde del Camino

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 673r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=426&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: 

otli (Mdz10v)

otli (Mdz22r)

texotli (Mdz43r)

otli (TR3v)

otli (Verg9v)

Otlica (MH809r)

Tlacochin (MH618v)

Olin (MH533r)