Chimalaxoch (Azca17)

Chimalaxoch (Azca17)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This painted black-line drawing of the compound personal name, Chimalaxoch (attested female), shows a four-petal, red flower with a natural center. The flower is supported by a gold base and two gold leaves. Below the flower is a round war shield with a red border and a black and natural mesh pattern in the center. Coming off the left side of the shield are two short streams of water, tan with a gold droplet at the end of each one.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

This woman was the daughter of Huitzilihuitl the elder. Another glyph for her name in this manuscript leaves out the water, and the gloss there calls her Chimalxoch (see below). The contextualizing image shows how her hairstyle results in two curving horn-like shapes at the top of her head. She wears only a skirt–no huipilli.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

Chimalaxoch

Gloss Normalization: 

Chimalaxoch

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)
Date of Manuscript: 

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Flowers
Gender (female)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Water
Weapons, Shields, Armor
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
red
tan
white/neutral
yellow or golden
Shapes and Perspectives: 
border (red, plain, or patterned)
checked, cross-hatched, or mesh
circle, circular or rounded
frontal view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
right to left
Keywords: 

género, cabello, pelo, neaxtlahualli, flores, escudos, agual, nombres de mujeres

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

chimal(li), war shield, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chimalli
a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
xoch(itl), a flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

literalmente, Escudo-Agua-Flor

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=17&st=image

Image Source, Rights: 

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Chimalxoch (Azca16)