Moltzoyo (MH886r)

Moltzoyo (MH886r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Moltzoyo (perhaps “Dirty Sauce” or “Dirty Sauce Bowl”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a container with a wide mouth and a handle on left and right. Presumably, this is a container that would hold sauce (molli). It has hash marks that may indicate that the container is not clean (tzoyo).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This container does not mimic a sauce bowl from earlier times, as seen for instance in the Codex Mendoza (see below), or even other glyphs with the “mol” element in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (also below), so perhaps the interpretation requires further work.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

luyx tzoyō (altered to: luys tzoyō)

Gloss Normalization: 

Luis Tzoyo

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
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness, and their absence
Containers, Dishes, Eating Utensils
Food, Eating, Cooking
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
hash marks (maize connection)
Keywords: 

jícaras, vasos, envases, molcajetes, sucios, nombres de hombres

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

mol(li), sauce (or, by implication, sauce bowl), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/molli
tzoyo, dirty, unclean, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzoyo
tzoyo(tl), the anus, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tzoyotl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Molcajete Sucio

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=844&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: 
forward slash
intrusive overbar
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

molli (Mdz13r)

Atl Imol (MH528r)

molli (MH818r)