Xantli (MH666r)

Xantli (MH666r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xantli (“Adobe Brick”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows an adobe brick with some hatching that suggests possible three dimensionality. A connecting line or tether links the brick to speech scrolls (or the like) coming out of the tribute payer’s mouth. These have yet to be deciphered.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The name Xantli is unusual, even if adobe bricks were native to the Americas and prevalent in most Indigenous communities. See an adobe house from the Codex Mendoza, below. It looks like a standard calli (house, building), with the T-shaped entryway.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Scrolls (Speech, Song, etc.)
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
shading and parallel line hatching
three-dimensionality
volute(s)
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Keywords: 

ladrillos, adobes, construcción, arquitectura, hablar, volutas, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image: 
Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s): 

The name Xantli is unusual, even if adobe bricks were native to the Americas and prevalent in most Indigenous communities. See an adobe house from the Codex Mendoza, below. It looks like a standard calli (house, building), with the T-shaped entryway.

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Ladrillo de Adobe

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 666r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=412&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: 

texancalli (Mdz70r)