Xaltepetlapan (Chav9)

Xaltepetlapan (Chav9)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xaltepetlapan (“Pumice-Mat") shows a frontal or bird's eye view of a circular piece of land with sand and small, circular stones in the upper half and a hand-woven mat in the bottom half (or slightly more than half).

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

It is worthy of note that sand and small stones are often contained within a circle or another shape in glyphs across multiple manuscripts. In this collection, when we publish elements of compound that involve sand, the elements do not always have their containing borders anymore.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

xaltepetlapan

Gloss Normalization:

Xaltepetlapan

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Chavero, Codex (Chav)

Date of Manuscript:

1578

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Cultural Content, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

bird's eye view

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

sand, arenas, stones, piedras, mats, petates

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xal(li)), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
xate(tl), pumice, whetstone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalte
petla(tl), hill; mountain, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Poma-Petate

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco), https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_03246_001/?sp=9

Image Source, Rights:

The Codex Chavero of Huexotzinco (or Códice Chavero de Huexotzinco) is held by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México. It is published online by the World Digital Library and the Library of Congress, which is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.”

Historical Contextualizing Image: