Ixtlil (MH744v)

Ixtlil (MH744v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Ixtlil (“Face-Black”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a person’s head with a black (tlilli) face (ixtli). These features are merged, but there is another element. A white flower with three petals and a three-part sepal appears in front of the side of the head.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The flower suggests the fuller name may have been Ixtlilxochitl, being named after a famous ruler of Tetzcoco. Or perhaps the flower is just meant to help the viewer conclude that the black face indeed meant Ixtlil and not some ethnicity, or the like. Other glyphs in this collection do include an Ixtlil and an Ixtlilxochitl.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Color names
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
3
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

caras, color negro, nombres de hombres, nombres famosos

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

ix(tli), eye or face, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
tlil(li), black, ink, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlilli
Ixtlilxochitl, the name of rulers in Tetzcoco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/Ixtlilxochitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Cara Negra

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 744v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=567&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).

Orthography: 
"s" for x
"th" for t, d, or gd
"u" for o
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Ixtlil (MH626r)

Ixtlilxochitl (MH521r)