Xochiquen (MH774r)

Xochiquen (MH774r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochiquen (“Flowery-Garment,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a square ritual bib or vestment (quemitl) with flowers (xochitl) on it.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

po xochi que

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xochiquen

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
Syntax: 
Writing Features: 
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

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Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
Keywords: 

textiles, rituales, religion indígena, nombres de hombres

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

Xochiquen, a personal name and a flowery ritual bib, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochiquen

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Prenda de Pecho con Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 774r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=622&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).

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