Amatitlancalqui (MH875r)

Amatitlancalqui (MH875r)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity Amatitlancalqui ("One Who Lives at Amatitlan") is attested here as pertaining to a man. The glyph refers to the place. It shows a frontal view of a house (calli), which is part of the name but also says that this is a place. Two rectangular pieces of paper (amatl) appear on the roof of the building. The proximity of the paper to the building may imply the -titlan- (next to) part of the name.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

This collection contains a number of "names" of people who "reside at" or have a house at a certain place, such as this glyph shows. Not surprisingly, a calli is a prominent feature. See below.

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Gloss Diplomatic Transcription:

amatitla
calq~

Gloss Normalization:

Amatitlancalqui

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)

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Architecture, Construction, Buildings

Gender (male)

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Occupations

Paper

Writing, Literacy

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

black & white drawing (no color)

Shapes and Perspectives:

frontal view

rectangular

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

downward

Keywords:

papeles, casas, edificios, Amatitlan, nombres de hombres

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

ama(tl), paper, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/amatl
-titlan (locative suffix), next to, on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/titlan
-calqui, inhabitant, one who lives at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/calqui

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 875r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=822&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: