Xochicalcatl (MH619r) | Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs

Xochicalcatl (MH619r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xochicalcatl is attested here as a man's name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories:

Syntax:

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

diagonal or angled

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

Keywords:

flores, edificios, casas, lugares, etnicidades, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

Xochicalcatl, a person from Xochicalco, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochicalcatl
xochi(tl), flower, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xochitl
cal(li), house or building, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calli
-catl, affiliation suffix, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/catl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

Persona de Xochicalco

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 619r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=320st=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:

Chalcatl (MH523v)

Chalmecatl (MH506r)

Chololtecatl (Mdz42r)