Xiuhtecatl (MH626v)

Xiuhtecatl (MH626v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of six squares and, below them, a long open-ended rectangle stands for the personal name or occupation Xiuhtecatl (here, attested as pertaining to a man). The small squares are like turquoise (xihuitl) tesserae that were used for making mosaics. Below those squares, the long rectangle might be a piece of stone (tetl), which could be a phonetic indicator for the -tecatl in this name or occupation.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

A feather worker was an amantecatl, and therefore, a xiuhtecatl may have been an artisan who worked with turquoise. Seemingly, the turquoise (xihuitl) pieces are a phonetic indicator for the start of this occupation or name (Xiuh-).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

bartasal
xiuhtecatl

Gloss Normalization:

Baltazar Xiuhtecatl

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:

noun(s)

reduplication (visual)

Writing Features:

compound fully phonographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Art, Design, Crafts, etc.

Gender (male)

Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment

Labor Issues

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Turquoise or Jade

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

undetermined as yet

Keywords:

turquoise, turquesa, artisans, artesanos, mosaics, mosaicos, tesserae, teselas

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xihui(tl), turquoise, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xihuitl-0
-tecatl, a person from, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecatl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Un Artesano Que Trabaja con Turquesa (_)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

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).

Orthography:

"r" for l

"s" for z

Historical Contextualizing Image: