Calli (MH493r)

Calli (MH493r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of a simplex glyph for a house or building (calli) is also the Nahua name of a baptized man, Juan Calli. The glyph has a somewhat rare, full frontal view of a building. It features a large entry way lined with broad wooden beams.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The calli is both a day sign and a year sign in the calendar. Probably, here, it was a day sign that once had a numeral to go with it, indicating on which calli day the person was born. The calli is rarely given in a frontal view. When it is a frontal view, it is because there an unusual feature or building with a specific purpose that is being emphasized. Otherwise, normally, a generic calli is shown in profile. It can face left or right. See some examples below.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Juā calli

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Calli

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzinco, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
calendrics
day name
year name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Wood, wooden things
Cultural Content, Credit: 

José Aguayo-Barragán and Stephanie Wood

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

houses, casas, buildings, edificios, names, nombres, hombres, xiuhpohualli, año, turquesa, xihuitl

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

cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 493r, World Digital Library. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=65&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Huapalcalco (Mdz28r)

Iztacalco (Mdz17v)

Temazcalapan (Mdz21v)

calli (Mdz20r)

calli (Mdz16r)

Calchopitl (MH658r)