Itzquiyahua (MH632v)

Itzquiyahua (MH632v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Itzquiyahua (perhaps “Obsidian Entryway,” attested here as a woman’s name) shows a vertical row of three obsidian blades or knives, on their sides, with the points toward the viewer's right. These three black triangles are contained by a C-shaped entryway to a white building in profile, also facing right.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Quiyahuac mostly means outside, or at the entrance/exit to a building. Karttunen also suggests in the plaza. Here, perhaps the building entrance is imagined to have obsidian decorations--?

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

anā
ytzq~yahua

Gloss Normalization:

Ana Itzquiyahua

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (female)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Weapons, Shields, Armor

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

right to left

Keywords:

obsidiana, cuchillos, casas, arquitectura, nombres de mujeres, viudas, afuera

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

itz(tli), obsidian blade , quiyahuac, outside the house, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/itztli
quiyahuac, outside, at the entrance/exit, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/quiyahuac

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Hojas de Obsidiana-Entrada

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 632r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=347st=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 "c"

Historical Contextualizing Image: