Acahual (MH624r)

Acahual (MH624r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Acahual ("Dried Grasses," used as fuel) is attested here as a man's name. This glyph shows clusters and individual blades of grass that are curving somewhat. They are not obviously dried, but the gloss refers to dried grasses (acahualli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Diego
acaval

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Acahual

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)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
linear or multiple straight lines
frontal view
symmetry
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

hierbas secas, combustible, nombres de hombres

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

acahual(li), dried grasses, often used as fuel, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/acahualli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hierbas Secas para Combustible

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 624r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=330st=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: 
"v" for u, uh, or hu
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Acahual (MH509r)

zacatl (Mdz40r)

Zacacatl (MH507r)

Zacamol (MH497v)