Xihuitl (MH531r)

Xihuitl (MH531r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex (or compound?) glyph for the personal name Xihuitl (“Turquoise” or "Year," attested here as a man’s name) shows loose and assembled (?) turquoise tesserae--seemingly intended for making mosaics.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

For some excellent examples of turquoise mosaics from Mexico that are in the British Museum, see Elizabeth M. Carmichael, Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1970) and Colin McEwan et al, Turquoise Mosaics from Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

dio xihuitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Diego Xihuitl

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: 
Color names
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bell-shaped (upright)
mosaic
rectangular
triangular
Parts (of compounds or simplex + notation): 
Other / Comments
Number of Parts, Other / Comment: 

Undetermined as yet.

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
undetermined as yet
Keywords: 

turquoise, turquesa, years, años, mosáicos, mosaics, teselas, xiuhpohualli, turquesa, xihuitl

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

xihuitl, turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

La Turquesa, o El Año (?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 531r, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=141&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: 

xihuitl (Mdz71r)

xihuitl (Mxnus19)