Xaltema (MH648r)
This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xaltema (perhaps meaning "Full of Sand") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph includes a largely horizontal stone (tetl) with its typically curling ends and a diagonal line. The stone is phonetic for the -te- syllable in the middle of the name. Part of the stone is missing, however, and this area is filled with sand (xalli).
Stephanie Wood
The "tlapale" after this man's name is a reference to one who "has colors," or in other words, probably one who paints, a painter.
Stephanie Wood
pedro xaltema tlapale
Pedro Xalteman, tlapale
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
piedras, arena, pintores, colores, verbos, nombres de hombres
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xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
ma(itl), hand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/maitl
tema, to fill with sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tema
temalaca(tl), stone grinding tool, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/temalacatl
man(i), in the manner of, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/mani-1
A Manera de Arenisca (?)
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&st=image
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![](https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/sites/default/files/XaltemanContext.png)