Xolotecatl (MH784r)

Xolotecatl (MH784r)
Simplex Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name and ethnicity Xolotecatl ("One from Xolotlan") is attested as a man's name. The root of the town name is xolo, referring to a servant or enslaved person. The visual seems to be the type of shirt worn by a servant, although it seems to be upside-down. See below.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss or Text Image:

Gloss/Text Diplomatic Transcription:

ant^o xollotecatl

Gloss/Text Normalization:

Antonio Xolotecatl

Gloss/Text Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

deity name/theonym

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

Writing Features:

simplex or element as logogram

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Labor Issues

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Slavery

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

curving, curvy, curved

frontal view

linear or multiple straight lines

rectangular

segmented

Keywords:

nombres de hombres, etnicidad, Xolotlan, fuerza divina

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Xolotecatl, someone from Xolotlan, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xolotecatl
xolo(tl), a dog, an ancestor, or a divine force associated with lightning and death, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xolotl

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 784r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=642&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:

"ll" for l

Historical Contextualizing Image: