Xalicuilol (MH603r)

Xalicuilol (MH603r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xalicuilol (“Sand Painting,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a rectangular shape that could represent a painting (icuilolli). Inside the rectangle are dots that represent sand (xalli). The swirl may be there to suggest a pattern, a design, which icuilolli can also suggest.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

If this was not a sand painting (which is a phenomenon known in New Spain, in the part that is now the U.S. Southwest), then it may have been some kind of cultivation-intervention in a sandy parcel. The use of icuiloa in compounds relating to cuemitl (furrow) and tlalli (agricultural land parcel) can be found in a few glyphs shown below.

In the gloss, the starting letter (S) substitutes for the more standard X. This is somewhat unusual for Stage 1 orthography, but it does occur. See, for example, the gloss for Xolotl in the Matricula de Huexotzinco, folio 638 verso.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro salicuilol

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Xalicuilol

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

cuil (tracking)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

dotted, granular, textured

rectangular

spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

outward (from inside out)

Keywords:

sand, arena, paintings, pinturas, cuadros, icuilol, writing, escritura

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
icuilol(li), a piece of writing or a painting, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/icuilolli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Pintura de Arena, o Diseño/Cultivo en la Arena

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 603r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=287&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).

Historical Contextualizing Image: