Chalchihuatl (MH557v)

Chalchihuatl (MH557v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chalchihuatl (“Jade-Water,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a curving string of what are likely jade (chalchihuitl) beads. They are on the right outer edge of a swirling body of water (atl).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Jade beads, as seen below, can be painted with a mottled, perhaps swirling design, and some see jade beads in the droplets that splash off from streams of water (along with turbinate shells).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Juā chalchivatl

Gloss Normalization:

Juan Chalchihuatl

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

jade, green stone, gems, joyas, agua, water, verde

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
chalchihui(tl), precious green stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
chalchiuha(tl), jade water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchiuhatl
Chalchihuatl, a name in Tlaxcala, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Jade-Agua

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 557v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=194&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).

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