Xaltepetlapan (MH735r)

Xaltepetlapan (MH735r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xaltepetlapan (perhaps "On the Sandy Mountains") 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. Xaltetl is pumice, and so the sand and stone could provide phonetic indicators for this term. Or this could just be a visual for sand. The bottom half contains a woven mat (petlatl). This seems to be a phonetic indicator for tepetla (mountains or mountainous region). The locative suffix (-pan, on) is not shown visually. But the church next to the place glyph (or part of it) provides a semantic locative.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

stones, piedras, arena, petates, montañas, nombres de lugares, barrios, casas, edificios, topónimos, Xaltepetlapan

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

En las Montañas Arenosas

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 735r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=548&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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