sacristán (CST31)
This black, white, gray, and red painting of the simplex glyph glossed "sacristanes" (a Spanish loanword that was taken into Nahuatl, meaning sacristans who would pertain to the local Christian church), shows two standing men in long red gowns. They appear to be walking toward the viewer's left. Their left hands are visible. The man in the back is carrying a key ring that has two keys. He holds one large key up in the air at about chest height, while the other key dangles. The robes have lines that give them a three-dimensionality.
sacristanes
Stephanie Wood
1550–1564
Jeff Haskett-Wood
iglesias, templos, ayudantes, religión
sacristán, a person who works in the church, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/sacrist%C3%A1n
Códice Sierra-Texupan, plate 31, page dated 1560. 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.
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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.
