Xaltepetlapan (MH495r)
Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:
This is black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name, Xaltepetlapan.
Description, Credit:
Stephanie Wood
Source Manuscript:
Date of Manuscript:
1560
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Cultural Content & Iconography:
Cultural Content, Credit:
Jeff Haskett-Wood
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Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):
xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
Image Source:
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 495r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=69&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).
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