Xaltepetlapan (MH495r)

Xaltepetlapan (MH495r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xaltepetlapan is a bird's eye view of a circle with two halves. The top half contains sand (xalli), which appears to be mixed with stone (tetl), another part of the place name. The bottom half contains a woven mat (petlatl). The locative suffix (-pan) is not shown visually, but perhaps the landscape provides a semantic locative.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

Xaltepetlapā

Gloss Normalization:

Xaltepetlapan

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:

place name

Syntax:

locative (not visual, but represented semantically)

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Furniture

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Technology (all types), plus Tools

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle, circular or rounded

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

dotted, granular, textured

bird's eye view

woven

zigzag

Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

sand, arena, petates, xal, petla, te

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
te(tl), stones or rocks, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

En el Petate [con] Arena y Piedras

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=116&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: