Amatitlancalqui (MH875r)

Amatitlancalqui (MH875r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Amatitlancalqui ("One Who Lives at Amatitlan") is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph refers to the place. It shows a frontal view of a house (calli), which is part of the name but also says that this is a place. Two rectangular pieces of paper (amatl) appear on the roof of the building. The proximity of the paper to the building may imply the -titlan- (next to) part of the name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

amatitla
calq~

Gloss Normalization: 

Amatitlancalqui

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: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Occupations
Paper
Writing, Literacy
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
rectangular
Keywords: 

papeles, casas, edificios, Amatitlan, nombres de hombres

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

ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
-titlan (locative suffix), next to, on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan
-calqui, inhabitant, one who lives at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calqui

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=822&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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