Xipopoca (MH775r)

Xipopoca (MH775r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xipopoca (perhaps "Turquoise Smoke") is attested here as a man's name. Four symmetrically arranged mosaic turquoise (xihuitl) pieces provide the start to the name, Xi-. The reduplicated ending, -popoca, is represented by three smoke curls (popoca) that rise from the xihuitl.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

Juan José Batalla Rosado (2021, 477) has noted the relative rarity of turquoise providing the phonetic "xi" syllable, as compared to "xiuh." This is one of the few examples he notes.

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

marti . xipopoca

Gloss Normalization: 

Martín Xipopoca

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
phonetic dimensions
Syntax: 
line connecting elements
noun(s)
reduplication (in gloss/text)
reduplication (visual)
visual movement
visual plural (multiples of objects)
xi syllable from xihuitl
Writing Features: 
compound fully logographic
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Art, Design, Crafts, etc.
Fire, Tobacco, Incense, Smoke
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Turquoise or Jade
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
bird's eye view
frontal view
quincunx or quatrefoil
rectangular
tripartite
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
upward
Keywords: 

turquesa, téselas, humo, humear, volutas, rectángulos, mosáicos, nombres de hombres

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

xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
xiuh-, turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xiuh-1
xi- (combining element) for turquoise blue, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xi-4
popoca, for something to smoke, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/popoca

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Turquesa-Humear, o Humo Verde (_)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 775r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=624&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).

Orthography: 
dropped "n"
Historical Contextualizing Image: 
See Also: 

Xiuhnel (MH513r)

popoca (Mdz4v)

popoca (MH483v)

xihuitl (Mxnus19)