Chalchiuh (MH520r)
This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chalchiuh (here, attested as a man's name), shows two large concentric circles with some divisions and markings inside both circles. Around the perimeter are four smaller circles evenly spaced, and each of these has a yet smaller circle inside it. If the outer circles were connected, the shape would be an X. The effect is a quincunx. This is the chalchihuitl (local jade, green stone) glyph.
Stephanie Wood
See other examples of the chalchihuitl glyph below.
peo chalchiuh
Pedro Chalchiuh
Stephanie Wood
1560
jades, piedras verdes, brilla
This stone carving of the glyph for jade (chalchihuitl) is located in the Museo Xolotl in the archaeological site of Tenayuca (in the region of Tlalnepantla, Mexico City). One of the circlets on the perimeter--in the upper left corner--has been broken off. Photo by Stephanie Wood, 13 August 2023.
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chalchihui(tl), jade or greenstone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 520r, World Digital Library.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=119&st=image.
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