Xaltepetlapan (MH625r)
This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xaltepetlapan. It shows a circle with a border. It is divided horizontally in three parts. The top and the bottom parts contain sand (xalli) in the form of dots or tiny circles (the latter possibly being stones, tetl). Between the two is a band of woven reeds (petlatl). The sum of the parts refers to the place, "On the Hill of Sand." If indeed "tepetl" is intended, then the stones and the petate are providing phonetic indicators, not literal. If so, only the sand is logographic. The building above the circle provides a visual, but silent, semantic locative.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
stones, piedras, arena, petates, nombres de lugares, barrios, casas, edificios, topónimos
xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
te(tl), rocks, stones, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
petla(tl), woven mat, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/petlatl
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
En el Petate [con] Arena y Piedras
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 625r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=332st=image.
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