Xaxal (MH626v)

Xaxal (MH626v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xaxal (perhaps "Sandy Soil") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph seems to show two flags (perhaps panitl) with streamers, joined together with a line. It is unclear how these objects bring to mind sandy soil (xaxalli). The reduplication in the gloss does, at least, seem to be borne out by the images.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

peDro
xaxal

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xaxal

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

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)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
Writing Features: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Gender (male)
Land Parcels, Use, Issues
Landscape Features
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
wavy
vertical, upright
profile view
frontal view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
downward
Keywords: 

sand, arena, flags, banners, banderas, movement, wind, viento, movimiento, nombres de hombres

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

xaxal(li), sandy soil, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xaxalli
pan(itl), flag or banner, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/panitl
Xaxalpan, a place name, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xaxalpan

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 626v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=335&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: 

Xaxalpan (Mdz20r)

panitl (Mdz24v)

panitl (Mdz35r)