ichcatl ichan (CST42)

ichcatl ichan (CST42)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-and-white line drawing of the simplex glyph for the phrase ichcatl ichan (the sheep’s pen) shows a clear profile view of one ram facing toward the viewer’s left. Other animals are in the pen, too, but they are less clearly visible. On the right side of the pen one can see an arched doorway, which suggests almost a bird’s eye view for the pen. So, the perspective is shifting.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

For more on the Codex Sierra, see Kevin Terraciano’s study (2021), especially pp. 125 and 159 for the transcription and English translation of the relevant companion text.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Sierra/Texupan, Codex (CST)

Date of Manuscript:

1550–1564

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, Oaxaca

Syntax:

noun(s)

possessive pronoun

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Other Cultural Influences:

Mixtec

Spanish/European

Keywords:

carneros, corrales

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ichca(tl), sheep (in this context), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ichcatl
chan(tli), home or pen (in this context), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/chantli
i- (possessive, his/her/its), https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/i

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

corral de carneros

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 42, page dated 1561. Origin: Santa Catalina Texupan, Mixteca Alta, State of Oaxaca. Kevin Terraciano has published an outstanding study of this manuscript (Codex Sierra, 2021), and in his book he refers to alphabetic and “pictorial” writing, not hieroglyphic writing. We are still counting some of the imagery from this source as hieroglyphic writing, but we are also including examples of “iconography” where the images verge on European style illustrations or scenes showing activities. We have this iconography category so that such images can be fruitfully compared with hieroglyphs. Hieroglyphic writing was evolving as a result of the influence of European illustrations, and even alphabetic writing impacted it.
https://bidilaf.buap.mx/objeto.xql?id=48281&busqueda=Texupan&action=search

Image Source, Rights:

The Biblioteca Digital Lafragua of the Biblioteca Histórica José María Lafragua in Puebla, Mexico, publishes this Códice Sierra-Texupan, 1550–1564 (62pp., 30.7 x 21.8 cm.), referring to it as being in the “Public Domain.” This image is published here under a Creative Commons license, asking that you cite the Biblioteca Digital Lafragua and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Historical Contextualizing Image: