Nepolol (MH829v)

Nepolol (MH829v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Nepolol (perhaps “Self-Destructive”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a left hand at an angle, palm toward the viewer, and short curving lines below the hand.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Perhaps these lines suggest movement, as though the hand is hitting or slapping. But it this visual is reminiscent of the popoloa glyph where someone is meant to be lavishly spending money (with coins freely falling away from the hand).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

texiq~ juā nepolol

Gloss Normalization: 

texinqui, Juan Nepolol

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Personality, Behavior
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

gastarse, destruirse, suicidarse, hacerse daño a uno mismo, nombres de hombres

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

nepololiz(tli), self-destruction, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Autodestructivo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 829v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=733&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: 

poloa (Mdz13r)

popoloa (Mdz25r)

Popol (MH719r)