Xochipil (MH675r)

Xochipil (MH675r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochipil (“A Noble” or “Flower Prince) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a frontal view of a man’s face. He seems to have long hair, and he seems to wear a headdress of three feathers above his forehead.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

There are no comparable glyphs yet in this collection. The frontal-face view is more common for deities than for human portraits. Nenetl figurines of deities are also typically shown in a frontal-view, as are teotl (divinity) and tonalli (sun) faces.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
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: 
simplex or element as logogram
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Feathers
Gender (male)
Hair (human or animal)
Jewelry, Crowns, or other Adornment
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
frontal view
Keywords: 

flores, nobles, pelo largo, tocados de plumas, nombres de hombres

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

Xochipilli, “Flower Prince,” a divine force or deity of solar fertility, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochipilli
xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
pil(li), a person of noble lineage, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pilli

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

posiblemente, un noble, o la Fuerza Divina de las Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 675r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=430&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: 

Achiteotl (MH507r)

Coanen (MH600r)

Nencauh (MH568r)

Teoxoch (MH524v)

tonalli (MH487v)