Cencozcatl (MH677v)

Cencozcatl (MH677v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Cencozcatl (“Dried Maize Necklace”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a circular cord (for a necklace, cozcatl) that is tied and supports four suspended dried maize cobs (centli), all pointing away from the cord. The kernels are all visible on the ears of corn.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Note other examples of centli, also spelled cintli, plus tlaolli (dried kernels), elotl (not dried, corn on the cob), olchicalli (a group of cobs), and xilotl (a tender green maize cob).

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:

Corn, Maize

Food, Eating, Cooking

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

segmented

tied, bound, or bundled

Keywords:

maíz, mazorcas, collares, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cen(tli), dried corn cobs, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/centli-0
cozca(tl), necklace, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cozcatl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Collar de Mazorcas

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 677v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=435&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:

"l" for r

Historical Contextualizing Image: