Xolomitl (MH639v)

Xolomitl (MH639v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description: 

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Xolomitl ("Servant's Bone"? attested here as a man's name) shows a vertical bone (omitl), with the articular cartilage of the epiphysis (joint area) at the top and a jagged, broken tip at the bottom. To the left of the bone is the head of what may be a young man, perhaps a servant or page (xolo).

Description, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis: 

The servant or page (xolo) may have a semantic meaning in the name, or perhaps the man's head serves as a phonetic indicator for xolotl, the dog, and a dog's bone in the real intention. Further research might clarify this.

The use of "S" in place of "X" in the gloss is not unknown in the sixteenth century, but it is much more common in later orthography. For another example, see Xolotl (MH638v), below.

Added Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image: 
Gloss Diplomatic Transcription: 

solomitl

Gloss Normalization: 

Xolomitl

Gloss Analysis, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Source Manuscript: 
Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)
Date of Manuscript: 

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage): 

Huejotzingo, Puebla

Semantic Categories: 
personal name
Syntax: 
noun(s)
Cultural Content & Iconography: 
Anatomy, human body parts
Animals, incl. Birds, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, etc.
Gender (male)
Names (personal and/or theonym)
Cultural Content, Credit: 

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors: 
black & white drawing (no color)
Shapes and Perspectives: 
vertical, upright
profile view
frontal view
facing right
Parts (compounds or simplex + notation): 
2
Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation): 
left to right
Keywords: 

dog, perro, nombres de hombres

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

xolo, a page or servant, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xolotl
omi(tl), bone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/omitl

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation: 

Hueso del Serviente (o del Perro?)

Spanish Translation, Credit: 

Stephanie Wood

Image Source: 

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 639v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=361&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: 

Xolotl (MH638v)

xolo (Mdz38r)

xolo (Mdz13r)