Xalixcatl (MH712r)

Xalixcatl (MH712r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnic affiliation, Xalixcatl (“Person from Xalixco,” or Jalisco today) is attested here as male. It shows small circles and large dots that suggest sand (xalli). The larger pieces of sand have shading on them, which gives them a three-dimensionality. Above the sand is the frontal view of a human eye (ixtli). This eye shows European artistic influence. The suffix (-catl) suggesting an affiliation is not shown visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Landscape Features

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

red

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

shading and parallel line hatching

three-dimensionality

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

dotted, granular, textured

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

arena, nombres de lugares, nombres de hombre, etnicidades

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
-catl, ethnic affiliation, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Xalixco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=502&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

intrusive "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: