Xiquipilli (BMapO105)

Xiquipilli (BMapO105)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xiquipilli (“Sack” or “8,000”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph is somewhat damaged, but it seems to show a ritual sack with a looping handle.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

The Codex Mendoza provides some intricately drawn xiquipilli signs that are part of place names. These sacks were elaborately made and especially valuable for the contents they contained, such as cacao beans and, after colonization, coins.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

This glyph is not glossed; the transliteration of the glyph comes from Gordon Whittaker’s contribution to the study by Mary E. Miller and Barbara E. Mundy (2012).

Source Manuscript:

Beinecke Map (BMap)

Date of Manuscript:

c. 1565

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Mexico City or the Valley of Mexico

Semantic Categories:

numbers

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Numbers, Math

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

Keywords:

bolsas, dinero, números, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xiquipil(li), a special sack or the number 8,000, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xiquipilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Bolsa, u Ocho Mil

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Beinecke Map/Codex Reese, section 8, no. 105 in the Whittaker study (published in the Miller/Mundy book, 2012), and see the original at: https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3600017

Image Source, Rights:

The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, hold the original manuscript, the MS. Arch. Selden. A. 1. This image is published here under the UK Creative Commons, “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License” (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0).

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