Tozo (MH886v)

Tozo (MH886v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Tozo (perhaps “He Stayed Up Late”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows the head of what may be a man, in profile, facing toward the viewer’s right. His face has lines on it, perhaps from staying up late at night (from the verb, tozoa). There is something next to his head which might make this glyph a compound, but the object has yet to be identified. It looks like a white triangle with its point down and a line coming downward from that point.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

As yet (March 2025), there are no other glyphs relating to this theme and no others with the white triangle on a stick.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

anto. toço

Gloss Normalization: 

Antonio Tozo

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Shapes and Perspectives: 
Keywords: 

sin dormir, mantenerse despierto, nombres de hombres

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

tozoa, to stay up late, keep vigil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tozoa

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Se Quedó Despierto Muy Noche

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 886v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=845&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).

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