Caltonal (MH816v)

Caltonal (MH816v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Caltonal (perhaps, “Sun House”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a classic house or building (calli). Five or more rays (apparently relating to the sun, tonalli) shine upward from the horizontal lintel at the entrance to what may be a temple (even though this is not labeled a “teopan”). This glyph could be counted as a simplex, but the rays might not necessarily be a part of the architecture, and they are there as a semantic indicator of the meaning associated with the building.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

In the glyph below that is provided for the purpose of comparison, the Xochitonal glyph from folio 642 verso, the rays again seem to be more there as an indication of the association of the flower with the meaning of “sun” or “day” than intended to show a physical feature of the flower.

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: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Celestial Phenomena
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Religion (Indigenous)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
spiky
rectangular
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

sol, edificios, rayos, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, Casa del Sol, o Templo del Sol

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 816v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=707&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: 

Calli (MH493r)

Xochitonal (MH642v)