Atlixcatl (MH712v)

Atlixcatl (MH712v)
Compound Glyph

Glyph or Iconographic Image Description:

This compound glyph for the personal name or ethnicity, Atlixcatl (“Person from Atlixco”), shows five vertical streams of turquoise-blue water, each one with a small circle at the lower tip with a dot inside the circle. Lines of current run through each of the five streams, showing movement. Above the water is a human eye (ixtli) in a frontal view. It is drawn in a European style. The -co (locative suffix) is not covered visually.

Description, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Added Analysis:

Glyphs for the name Atlix will have either a European-style eye or a starry/stellar eye, the latter being an earlier eye that could double as a star in the sky (for a starry eye, see MH733r).

Added Analysis, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Gloss Image:

Source Manuscript:

Huexotzinco, Matrícula de (MH)

Date of Manuscript:

1560

Creator's Location (and place coverage):

Huejotzingo, Puebla, Mexico

Semantic Categories:

personal name

Syntax:

noun(s)

visible movement

Writing Features:

compound fully logographic

Cultural Content & Iconography:

Anatomy, human body parts

Gender (male)

Movement

Names (personal and/or theonym)

Race, Ethnicity, Identity

Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods

Water

Cultural Content, Credit:

Jeff Haskett-Wood

Colors:

blue (turquoise)

white/neutral

Shapes and Perspectives:

circle(s) (small, often concentric)

frontal view

Parts (compounds or simplex + notation):

Reading Order (Compounds or Simplex + Notation):

upward

Other Cultural Influences:

Spanish/European

Keywords:

ojos, agua, nombres de hombres, etnicidad, pueblos

Glyph or Iconographic Image:

Relevant Nahuatl Dictionary Word(s):

a(tl), water, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/atl
ix(tli), eye, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/ixtli
-co (locative suffix), at, https://nahuatl.wired-humanities.org/content/co

Glyph/Icon Name, Spanish Translation:

(una persona de Atlixco)

Spanish Translation, Credit:

Stephanie Wood

Image Source:

Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 712v, World Digital Library, https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=503&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: