Xochicalcatl (MH649v)

Xochicalcatl (MH649v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This colorful painting of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochicalcatl ("Person from Xochicalco") is attested here as a man's name. The glyph shows a red, black, and white building (calli) in profile, facing toward the viewer's left. A large yellow flower (xochitl) with three visible petals and a tripartite green sepal appears just outside the building, to the left.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro xochicalcatl

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Xochicalcatl

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:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Plants, Flora

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

red

white/neutral

yellow or golden

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

right angle(s)

tripartite

Keywords:

arquitectura, flores, edificios, casas, rojo, amarillo, nombres de hombres, etnicidades, pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Xochicalco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 649v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=381&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: