Xaltepetlapan (MH730r)
This is a black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the place name Xaltepetlapan (perhaps “On the Pumice Mat”). It shows two large concentric circles. The outer circle forms a white border. The inner circle is divided in half horizontally. The upper half has a woven pattern, recalling the woven mat (petlatl), which is part of the place name. The lower half is dotted, recalling sand (xalli) and stone (tetl), at the start of the place name. The locative suffix (-pan, on) is not shown visually, but the house that surrounds the glyph seems to serve as a semantic locative.
Stephanie Wood
1560
Jeff Haskett-Wood
arena, piedras, petates, nombres de lugares
xalte(tl), whetstone or pumice, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xaltetl
xal(li), sand, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/xalli
te(tl), stone, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/tetl-0
-pan (locative suffix), on, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/pan
En la Piedra Pómez-Petate
Stephanie Wood
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 730r, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=538&st=image
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