Chalchiuhtli (MH615r)

Chalchiuhtli (MH615r)

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing (with some added turquoise blue paint) of the simplex glyph for the personal name Chalchiuhtli ("Jade") is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Chalchiuh and Chalchihuitl are alternative spellings for this name.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro chalchiuhtli

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Chalchiuhtli

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)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
blue (turquoise)
white/neutral
Shapes and Perspectives: 
tied, bound, or bundled
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Keywords: 

nombres de hombres

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

chalchihui(tl), jade, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chalchihuitl

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 615r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=312st=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: 

Chalchihuitl (MH491r)

chalchihuitl (MH523r)