Xochiteteca (MH882v)

Xochiteteca (MH882v)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xochiteteca (perhaps “People Who Cut Flowers”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph shows a human hand holding onto a circle of seven flowers.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Other examples of special arrangements of flowers appear below. One occurs in a glyph for Tecpanecatl, and that one is something of a puzzle.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

gon calo . xochiteteca

Gloss Normalization:

Gonzalo Xoxhiteca

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)

reduplication (in gloss/text)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Keywords:

coronas, guirnaldas, flores, cortar, escoger, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
xochitetequi, to choose and cut flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitetequi

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

posiblemente, Gente Que Escoja y Corta Flores

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 882v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=837&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:

"ç" for z or tz

intrusive period

Historical Contextualizing Image: