Xaltetl (MH567r)

Xaltetl (MH567r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name, Xaltetl ("Sandstone," or "Stony Sand," attested here as a man's name) shows what may be a stone (tetl) with dots, probably meant to bring to mind sand (xalli).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The names Xaltetl, Xalte, and Xalteman (below) all deserve further investigation.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

The names Xaltetl, Xalte, and Xalteman (below) all deserve further investigation.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

juā xaltetl

Gloss Normalization: 

Juan Xaltetl

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: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry
Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
dotted, granular, textured
bird's eye view
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
inherent/internal/merged
Keywords: 

sand, arena, stones, piedras, 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

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Arenisca (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 567r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=213&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: 

Xalte (MH498v)

Xalteman (MH544r)

Xalli (MH497r)