Xaltocameca (Azca16)

Xaltocameca (Azca16)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the ethnic name Xaltocameca (people of Xaltocan) shows a bird’s eye view of a circle with a few dots inside that seem to indicate sand (xalli). In this midst of this circle of sand is a spider (tocatl) with a large round black body, a head with two dots for eyes, and perhaps nine legs. One can easily see that the place name and the ethnic name are represented with the same type of glyph.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The Xaltocameca play a large role on the pages of this manuscript that comprise Image 16. In this scene, they are taking captive the Mexica leader, Huitzilihuiitl, and his two daughters, Chimalxoch and Tozpanxoch.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

xaltocameca

Gloss Normalization:

Xaltocameca

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Azcatitlan, Codex (Azca)

Date of Manuscript:

post-1550, possibly from the early seventeenth century.

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

perhaps Tlatelolco, Mexico City

Semantic Categories:

place name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Animals: Insects & Bugs

Landscape Features

Names (places)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Othering

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Stones, Rocks, Lapidary, Masonry

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black

Shapes and Perspectives:

bird's eye view

segmented

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

inward (from outside in)

Keywords:

arena, arañas, etnicidades, pueblos, topónimos, nombres de lugares

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
toca(tl), a spider, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tocatl
-can (locative suffix), where, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/can-2

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

gente de Xaltocan

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

The Codex Azcatitlan is also known as the Histoire mexicaine, [Manuscrit] Mexicain 59–64. It is housed in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and hosted on line 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.”
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15280/?sp=16&st=image

Image Source, Rights:

The Library of Congress is “unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection.” But please cite Bibliothèque Nationale de France and this Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs.

Orthography:

dropped "n"

Historical Contextualizing Image: