Maxtla (TR31r)

Maxtla (TR31r)
Simplex Hieroglyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph from the Codex Telleriano-Remensis for the personal name Maxtla (here, attested as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a white loincloth (maxtlatl) with a loop, a knot, and horizontal lines across the two hanging pieces.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image: 
Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription: 

maxtla

Gloss/Text Normalization: 

Maxtla

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Telleriano-Remensis, Codex (TR)
Date of Manuscript: 

ca. 1550–1563

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Mexico City

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Shoes, Regalia
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
tied, bound, or bundled
vertical, upright
Keywords: 

breechclouts, loincloths, taparrabos, bragas, nombres de hombres

Museum/Rare Book/Realia Comparisons: 
Museum/Rare Book/Realia Notes: 

This is a detail of the sculptured stone depicting Coyolxauhqui (the divine force of the moon and sister of Huitzilopochtli). It shows loincloth, a male garment, with the classic loop and knot, with the exception that it involves snakes. Louise M. Burkhart suggests this loincloth connects Coyolxauhqui to warfare. [See: “Mexican Women on the Home Front,” p. 47, in Susan Schroeder, Stephanie Wood, and Robert Haskett, eds., Indian Women of Early Mexico (1997, 25–54).] Photograph by Stephanie Wood, Museo del Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 15 February 2023.

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

maxtla(tl), loincloth, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maxtlatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Taparrabo

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Telleriano-Remensis Codex, folio 31 recto, MS Mexicain 385, Gallica digital collection, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8458267s/f87.item.zoom

Image Source, Rights: 

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Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

maxtlatl (Mdz13r)

maxtlatl (Mdz54r)

maxtlatl (Mdz43r)

Tlalpi (MH695v)

netlauhtilli (FCbk8f43r)

Maxtlazaca (Verg39v)