Caltepi (MH649r)

Caltepi (MH649r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This red, black, and white painting of the simplex glyph for the personal name Caltepi ("Little House") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a house with three large wooden beams painted red, with the exception that the lower part of the two vertical beams are painted black.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

To have a calli facing the viewer seems to suggest European stylistic influence. The typical calli glyph of earlier times shows a building in profile. The black paint at the base of the beams may also be a colonial introduction.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
adjective
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black
red
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
right angle(s)
rectangular
frontal view
Keywords: 

arquitectura, casas, edificios, rojo, blanco, negro, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Casita

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 649r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=379&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: 
intrusive "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

tepiton (MH506r)

Calton (MH504r)