Xochitilma (MH487r)

Xochitilma (MH487r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochitilma (here, attested as a man's name) shows an upright, three-petalled flower (xochitl) above a rectangular cloth (tilmatli) that was used for a ruler's cloak. The cloth has some vertical lines showing slight folds, and a knot that would go on the man's shoulder is there to clue the viewer in to the fact that this is a cloak.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

pedro xochitilma

Gloss Normalization:

Pedro Xochitilma

Gloss Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Flowers

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites

Textiles, Clothing, Hats, Regalia

Cultural Content, Credit:

Xitlali Torres and Stephanie Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

cloaks, capas, clothing, ropa, flores

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

xochi(tl), flowers, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl.
tilma(tli), cloak, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tilmatli.

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 487r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=53&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: