Chalchiuhtlatonac (MH882r)

Chalchiuhtlatonac (MH882r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Chalchiuhtlatonac (perhaps “Greenstone on Which the Sun Shone”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a round greenstone (chalchihuitl), with its four small beads evenly placed around the perimeter. Outside the circle are sun rays that convey the verb tona, for the sun to shine. And the sun, with a frontal view of its face, seems to have shone (in the preterit) on the chalchihuitl, making it shine more than normal. (See the article, “Vibrance in Glyphs,” in the left-hand navigation bar.)

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

andres chalchiuhtlatonac

Gloss Normalization:

Andrés Chalchiuhtlatonac

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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)

rays (e.g., tonalli, tonatiuh, or ilhuitl)

verb

preterit tense

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Celestial Phenomena

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

circle, circular or rounded

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

jades, piedras preciosas, brillar, sol, rayos, nombres de gobernadores mexicas, nombres famosos, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Chalchiuhtlatonac, the name of an early Mexica ruler, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchiuhtlatonac
chalchihui(tl), a greenstone, a precious stone, e.g., jade or jadeite, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl
cenca tonac, for there to be a great abundance, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/cenca-tonac
tona, for the sun to shine, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tona

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(nombre de un gobernante Mexica)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 882r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=836&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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