miquetl (Azca16)

miquetl (Azca16)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This simplex glyph for the noun miquetl (deceased person) shows a nude man, reclined Underneath the man but on top of the structure is a tan or yellow plank on top, probably wooden. Blood is spurting in an arc with about five streams from a hole in the abdomen of the man. The blood reaches the platform behind the man, and then it falls in a cascade from the plank toward what would be the ground (not pictured).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This death represents a human sacrifice, an offering or gift to the divine forces. Note how it compares to other deceased figures (below). The gloss speaks of multiple deceased Mexica persons.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

onca mique in . mexica

Gloss Normalization: 

onca mique (i.e. miqueh) in Mexica

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Blood (human/animal/plant)
Death, decay, decomposition
Gestures with hands
Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice
Nudity
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
tan
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing upward
horizontal
profile view
Keywords: 

sacrificios, la muerte, muertos, sangre, plataformas

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

migue(tl), deceased person, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/miquetl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

un muerto

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography: 
intrusive period
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Micquetlan (Mdz10v)

Micquetlan (Mdz12r)

Micquetlan (Mdz52r)