Chalchiuhtepehua (MH644r)

Chalchiuhtepehua (MH644r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chalchiuhtepehua (perhaps "Mountains of Jade," attested here as a man's name) shows a three-dimensional mountain (tepetl) with the sign of jade (chalchihuitl) at the top.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If possession is not meant, then the name could be Chalchiuhtepehua, perhaps "he throws jade down" (with the verb tepehua). Aside from literal translations, which are difficult, it is important to know that Chalchiuhtepehua was the name or title of a priest involved in human sacrifice after battles.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pablo chalchiuhtepeuā

Gloss Normalization:

Pablo Chalchiuhtepehua

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Gifts, Offerings, Sacrifice

Landscape Features

Religion (Indigenous)

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

quincunx or quatrefoil

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

jades, piedras preciosas, cerros, montañas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

chalchiuhtepehua, a priest involved in sacrifice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchiuhtepehua
chalchihui(tl), jade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
tepehua, to throw down or defeat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepehua
tepe(tl), hill or mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tepetl
-hua, possessive singular nominal suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/hua

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

La Montaña Que Tiene Jades

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 644r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=370&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:

dropped "h"

intrusive overbar

Historical Contextualizing Image: