Xotlami (MH535v)

Xotlami (MH535v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xotlami (“Flower-Perishes,” attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a flower (xochitl)] with three obvious petals and a tripartite sepal with a short stem. Underneath the flower is the partial head of a ferocious animal looking to the viewer's right. Its mouth is open and its teeth are protruding.

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The implication seems to be that the animal is a threat to the flower, but what the name really means is unclear.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

petro. xotlami

Gloss Normalization: 

Pedro Xotlami

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)
verb
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Death, decay, decomposition
Flowers
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Plants, Flora
Teeth Protruding/Noticeable
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
facing right
profile view
tripartite
Keywords: 

flores, flowers, perish, perecer, terminar, animal feroz

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

xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
tlami, perish, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tlami
tecuani, person-eating animal, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tecuani

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Flor-Perecer

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 535v, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=150&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: 

tecuani (MH503r)

Tecuanchoca (MH510r)

xochitl (MH487r)