Calli (MH896r)

Calli (MH896r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Calli (“House”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a house or building in profile, facing right. Interestingly, the roof has a stepped design of the sort that dates back to Classic Period architecture such as that seen at Teotihuacan.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This is a calendrical name, taken from the religious divinatory calendar, the tonalpohualli. It is both a day sign and a year sign. Normally, the day name “House” would have had a companion number, but that has dropped away inadvertently or it was suppressed in the face of the colonial clergy’s prohibition of the continuing use of the pre-contact calendar.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

tolipio calli

Gloss Normalization: 

Toribio Calli

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: 
calendrics
day name
year name
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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

casas, edificios, calendarios, tonalpohualli, xiuhpohualli, nombres de años, nombres de días, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Casa

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 896r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=864&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).

Orthography: 
"l" for r
"p" for b, u, or v
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Calli (MH493r)

Calli (MH485v)