Callalatl (Verg15v)

Callalatl (Verg15v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Callalatl (“House Land-Water,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a house (calli) in profile facing toward the viewer's left. Three sprays of water (atl), each with a droplet or bead at the end, emerges from the entry way of the building. Hanging down from the bottom of the T-shaped doorway of the building is a round bell with horizontal stripes and an opening at the bottom for the sound to escape.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The verb "to ring" (calani) is something of a homophone for house land (callalli). Thus, the bell seems to play a phonetic role to help the reader arrive at the sense of the water (irrigation) pertaining to house land, which was typically used for agricultural purposes, perhaps something like a kitchen garden. The term for outside is calan, which is also close here. Further research is required.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

matheo. calallatl

Gloss Normalization:

Mateo Callalatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Vergara, Codex (Verg)

Date of Manuscript:

1539

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Tepetlaoztoc, near Tetzcoco

Semantic Categories:

personal name

phonetic dimensions

Syntax:

noun(s)

onomatopoetic words

Writing Features:

compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Metals, Minerals, Mining

Music, Song, Dance

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Sensory Perception

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

bell-shaped (upright)

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

right to left

Keywords:

casas, edificios, agua, campanillas, campanas, pinjantes, bells, suenan, metales, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

cal(li), house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
calani, to ring (as in a bell), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calani
callalli, cultivated house land, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/callalli

Image Source:

Codex Vergara, folio 15v, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84528032/f38.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights:

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