Xaltema (MH648r)

Xaltema (MH648r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

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).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

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.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

pedro xaltema tlapale

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xalteman, tlapale

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
noun(s)
verb
Writing Features: 
compound of phonogram(s) & logogram(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
curving, curvy, curved
dotted, granular, textured
linear or multiple straight lines
bird's eye view
shading and parallel line hatching
spiraling, swirling, coiling, curling
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

piedras, arena, pintores, colores, verbos, nombres de hombres

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

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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

A Manera de Arenisca (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 648r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=378&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: 
See Also: 

xalli (Mdz17v)

Xalicuilol (MH603r)

xalli (Mdz20r)

Tetl (MH622r)